After having my children and teaching for 12 years, I decided to go back to school and work on more of my stories. I enrolled in the wonderful, amazing and perfectly perfect MFA( Masters in Fine Arts) program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. I joined the Writing for Young People part of the program and get to work with incredible authors from all genres. My mentors, my teachers, Susan Goodman, Anita Riggio, David Elliott and Pat Lowry Collins all led by the Director, Steven Cramer, have taught me so much about the craft of writing. They have also taught me how to keep learning and how to critique my own work before I say, “I’m done!”