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I was born in Australia, grew up in Toronto, and I now live in Mobile, Alabama. Living in different places in the world has definitely informed who I am and what I am driven to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m the Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing and Director of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama, Flagship of the Gulf Coast. I have a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an interdisciplinary MA in Creative Writing, Women\u2019s Studies, and International Studies from the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think all of my creative work looks at the absence of women at key historic moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I worked in film and television, I went to China and made a documentary film, Going to the Sea <\/em>(Women\u2019s Television Network; winner, Lester B. Pearson Award, Canada), about women teachers who were eclipsed by what was then a new market economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first novel, Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons<\/em>, is the result of ten years of research into the lives of Indian and African women who lived in Lucknow, India during 1857. The book is a counterhistory about the women who actually financed and led the \u201cmutiny,\u201d what became a crucial and significant fight against English dominance. The novel has been translated into French and Tamil and won the 2018 Best Book Awards in Historical Fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second novel, The Envy of Paradise<\/em>, is also a counterhistory about Begum Hazrat Mahal, the woman who led the resistance to the English in India. The book was a finalist in Multicultural Fiction for the 2020 International Book Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setting of The Nurse at Baker Hospital<\/em>, my third historical novel, takes me much closer to my home in the United States. Told through Della King, a poor nurse struggling to get through the Depression on her own, the novel is based on the true story about Norman Baker, a demagogue and radio propagandist who set up a nationally renowned cancer clinic in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My short stories, essays, and interviews have been published in the United States, Canada, India, and England in journals such as The Missouri Review, The Writer\u2019s Chronicle<\/em>, Blackbird, The Kipling Journal, African American Review<\/em>, and the anthology, Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m delighted to be part of the author team at Regal House Publishing. The Nurse at Baker Hospital <\/em>will be released in October, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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