I was born to Irish and Welsh parents in England, but I’ve lived in the U.S. for most of my life – in California, Michigan, Texas, and now in Alexandria, Virginia with my family. I am a social worker, psychotherapist and professor (at Virginia Commonwealth University), as well as an author. For my books, see the non-fiction and fiction pages.
In this blog, I talk about book in a month challenges. I also do book reviews on this site. For my review policy, see see my policy under book reviews. I write about memoirs related to mental health on my other blog Memoirs of Mental Health and Madness.

