Lady of the Play

Starting a new life after retiring from a business career, I became a full time student at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon majoring in English Literature and Writing, graduating with my BA degree in 2006. During my senior year I was inspired by my Shakespeare class, with not just the plays and sonnets, but with the authorship question as well. I was certain a woman must have had a hand in writing the plays since so many of the roles had strong female characters -- certainly something unusual since woman of the sixteenth century lived in a misogynistic society. This led me to Elizabeth Trentham, the second wife of Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, ultimately spending the next several years researching and writing my novel, Lady of the Play. To be published in 2021 by Wings ePress.

I am a widow living in Tigard, Oregon. I have three sons from my first marriage to Robert Pease. I have nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Following my twenty-five year career in workers' compensation claims administration, besides going back to college, I devoted myself to my second marriage to Donald Lindstedt, living in Cannon Beach, Oregon. I published my first novel, Deception Cove, published by Wings ePress in 2010. Following Don's death in 2014, I moved to Tigard, Oregon to be closer to my family. I am kept busy with my writing and meetings with writers' groups, I am a member of P.E.O. and play bridge once a week.

Besides my novel, Deception Cove, my fiction honors include third place winner for a poem: Two Ladies of Chedigny for Willamette Writers, Portland. Finalist for short story: Simply to Fly for NW Writers Association contest in Seattle. I presented a paper at the Virginia Woolf Conference, Lewis and Clark University. A guest speaker at the 2011 Shakespeare Authorship Symposium delivering my paper, Shakespeare, Perhaps a Woman.

My non-fiction writing honors include articles published in the Workers Compensation Journal and Risk Management Magazine, and Risk Management Magazine, and contributed a chapter in the the book: Work Injury: The Full Spectrum of Management. I also prepared a historical cookbook, "Cooking on the Coast" for Cannon Beach Historical Society.