I'm a writer in the Portland area. I write personal essays, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction and various crime profiles. I have interviewed several police officers in the past few years. Those interviews are all available on my website.

I am married to retired police detective, Don DuPay, also a published author. His book, "Behind the Badge in River City: A Portland Police Memoir" is an excellent and insightful study of police work, police culture and the police corruption that was a part of the Portland Police Bureau in the 1960s and 1970s.

I am the author of two books, "Murder and Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice and Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign," coauthored with crime writer, JD Chandler and published by The History Press, out of South Carolina. I'm also the author of "Blue Reverie in Smoke," a book of poetry, published by Oregon Greystone Press, of Oregon.

I'm a writer in the Portland area. I write personal essays, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction and various crime profiles. I have interviewed several police officers in the past few years. Those interviews are all available on my website.

I am married to retired police detective, Don DuPay, also a published author. His book, "Behind the Badge in River City: A Portland Police Memoir" is an excellent and insightful study of police work, police culture and the police corruption that was a part of the Portland Police Bureau in the 1960s and 1970s.

I am the author of two books, "Murder and Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice and Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign," coauthored with crime writer, JD Chandler and published by The History Press, out of South Carolina. I'm also the author of "Blue Reverie in Smoke," a book of poetry, published by Oregon Greystone Press, of Oregon.