I was Co-Editor in Chief of a Lit Mag called LOOMINGS, as an ungrad where I got to learn all about putting a small book together: text, art, printing. The collaborative process has inspired me throughout my life which I have spent on the design side of print, mostly business journalism few newspapers.
After raising a family, doing much volunteer work and starting a small business that centered around my love for antiques and collections, I am back to writing. I have just completed my first novel, a commercial fiction adventure, and have started on a collection of vignettes, which feel like flash fiction but may be too long to be in that category.
I love nature as well as cities; people and their stories. I revel in irony.
I write because people inspire me. Relationships, Interactions, ironies, injustices with patches of happiness and positive outcomes because any outcome has to be dealt with positively. I think these dynamics reflect life in a balanced way in spite of the zig zags it takes.
Snippets of pure bliss are in everyday life as well, I would attempt to capture them in my writing but also in short poetry. I love to hear a lyrical poem, feel the breeze in the leaves. I respect the poet who can bring the reader there. It is a most challenging, yet pleasant journey.
Walt Whitman, Anna Quinlan, John Updike, Dan Chaon, Stephen King, Nancy Sims, John Tytell, Ayn Rand, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Steve Martin...I'm all over the place. I like Norbert Krapf's poerty.
I love good journalism.
No one has written on Joan Curran's wall.
No one has written on Joan Curran's wall.