I am a  proud alumna of both Beaver College and  Arcadia University.  My official title is  Professor,  Access Services and Outreach librarian.  A doctorate in Educational Leadership as well as  three Master’s degrees in English (MA), Library Science (MSLS)and Creative Writing (poetry) (MFA) respectively.  I am the author of six books in my field of Librarianship and working on my seventh.   I am an authoethnographer and  ethnographer  who is interested in reflective practice, communities of practice, narrative inheritance, information literacy, Italian-American culture and many other topics that I do scholarly work in , around and on. I am the editor of two literary magazines OVUNQUE SIAMO: New Italian-American Writing and Red Fern Review.   As well, I am the author of several collections of poetry and collaborative collections.   I am fully to committed to student learning and collaboration with my colleagues both in the library and campus at large.

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“I know how to write forever. I don’t think I could have happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me. It’s control. Nobody tells me what to do. It’s mine, it’s free, and it’s a way of thinking. It’s pure knowledge.” Toni Morrison

“You have to practice your art, as does any artist, which in my view, means you dedicate at least part of each day of your entire life to nothing else.”—Bud Goodall, The New Ethnography