mogo2011
mogo2011
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Bio
I am a writer and a collector.
When I was a kid, I collected rocks. As an adult, I collected islands and wrote about them in my book "Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure" (Wayne State University Press, 2016).
Then I got to collect the Great Lakes themselves. My juvenile nonfiction book, "All About the Great Lakes" (Blue River Press) came out in April 2020.
I have always lived in the Detroit metropolitan area of the Lower Peninsula in the “Mitten State” and grew up visiting the Great Lakes--Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, in particular.
For 25 years, once the ice was off the lake and the ferry running again, I spent time at my cottage on Ontario’s Pelee Island in Lake Erie. On weekends there, I collected fossils and beach glass on the west shore. I also collected the ideas materializing above the waves, hovering just at the horizon.
And, regardless of what else I happen to be collecting at the moment, I'm always collecting words and stories, connecting and combining bits of information in ways that I find fascinating. Recently, those collections have been focused on trees. My book "Diving, A Memoir of Trees" will be released in February 2023 (Wayne State University Press).
Through Dunphy Consulting Services, I offer individual coaching services for writers, assist with book proposals and manuscripts, and facilitate writing workshops and retreats, including teaching prose-writing workshops for Springfed Arts
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