About DORIS

Born in the Panama Canal Zone, Doris has lived and traveled throughout the world. After careers as a teacher and a journalist, and raising three children, she turned to writing. An undergraduate English major, she has taken graduate level English classes and participated in writers’ workshops, including the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College and Colgate University’s novel, short story, and poetry workshops.

Doris’s story, “A Glitch in Time,” won second place and was published in the anthology Short Story America: Volume 7, July 2022. Other award-winning stories in Sea Island Spirit Writer’s short story contests include “A Mother and Son have a Friendly Conversation,” “Quit It!” and “Buried Along with Her Name,” all published in Beaufort, South Carolina’s Lowcountry Weekly. Her non-fiction work “Mobile Summer”” and her poem “Stars” were published in the Catfish Stew anthologies (April 19, 2020, and May 31, 2021), and several of her flash pieces were runners up in Women on Writing contests.

Always curious about what’s beyond the next bend, Doris and her husband have pet sit (and plant sit) in faraway places, including the United Kingdom, France, and Ireland, as well as various locales in the United States. The invitations her husband has received to lecture on cruises along the Atlantic African coast have afforded many interesting opportunities for travel and adventure. Broken Down is her novel in progress about the misadventures of academics at a conference in Africa, based on an actual trip Doris took with her academic husband.