Hi, I’m Rebecca! 

As a child, I always loved having playdates with words. Not only did I scribble in a diary every day (my first one had a bedazzled unicorn cover and mini-lock-and-key, naturally), but I wrote poems, plays, essays, silly jokes, inspirational sayings, and articles for “newspapers” that I created out of construction paper. 

Eventually, my obsession with words turned into a career as a professional magazine and newspaper journalist. I wrote about everything — from hard news stories for The New York Observer and New York Newsday to features of non-profit and business leaders for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Working Mother, to relationship pieces for Bride’s and Ladies Home Journal. 

When it was time to raise a family, I took time off from writing. But oh, how I missed it! Then, about seven years ago, after almost a decade of full-time Mommying, I enrolled in a local writing class called “Where Do I Begin?” My teacher provided weekly prompts and what began flowing out of me were funny, punny stories and poems — often, in rhyme.

(Wait, WHAT?!) 

“But I’m a journalist!” I thought. “Where’s all this poetry coming from?” 

And then I remembered: I’ve always been a poet. I have hundreds of diaries and notebooks in my attic, all overflowing with emotional ruminations, quotes, jokes and poems that I wrote as a young girl. This is who I was. This is who I have always been. This is who I am meant to be!

My teacher suggested that some of my poems would make great fodder for picture books. She introduced me to the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and I attended my first writing conference in June 2016. 

My mind was blown. 

I haven’t looked back.

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