About Me
In 2008, I left my staff position at the Lancaster Sunday News to return to school. I earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont, in July 2010. I still write theater reviews and work as a correspondent for the Sunday News. I also review and write articles for Audiofile Magazine, a periodical dedicated to audiobooks.
I knew I wanted to be a writer in the 8th grade when my Social Studies teacher handed out a mimeographed sheet (think laser copying in days of yore) to everybody in the class. Then she walked up-and-down the aisles between our desks, her high heels clicking, as she read aloud my poem, “A House Divided Cannot Stand.” Nobody knew who wrote it. But everybody listened. I was hooked on writing from that moment on!
We live in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, in a pretty little brick house with a picket fence (but it's not "a white picket fence," it's pressure-treated lumber). Ephrata is in Lancaster County, popularly known as "Pennsylvania Dutch Country" because of its Old Order Amish and Mennonite sects who dress in an old-fashioned style and travel via horse-and-buggy. There are lots of covered bridges and farms and produce stands beside back country roads selling everything from quilts to red beet eggs.
Me, with author Linda Oatman High at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Already longtime friends, we became college roommates!
Visit Linda Oatman High's website.
Visit the Vermont College of Fine Arts website.
I knew I wanted to be a writer in the 8th grade when my Social Studies teacher handed out a mimeographed sheet (think laser copying in days of yore) to everybody in the class. Then she walked up-and-down the aisles between our desks, her high heels clicking, as she read aloud my poem, “A House Divided Cannot Stand.” Nobody knew who wrote it. But everybody listened. I was hooked on writing from that moment on!
We live in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, in a pretty little brick house with a picket fence (but it's not "a white picket fence," it's pressure-treated lumber). Ephrata is in Lancaster County, popularly known as "Pennsylvania Dutch Country" because of its Old Order Amish and Mennonite sects who dress in an old-fashioned style and travel via horse-and-buggy. There are lots of covered bridges and farms and produce stands beside back country roads selling everything from quilts to red beet eggs.
Me, with author Linda Oatman High at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Already longtime friends, we became college roommates!
Visit Linda Oatman High's website.
Visit the Vermont College of Fine Arts website.
My Family
On the left are my own kids (left to right, Meribeth Crisp Thompson, Josh Crisp, Will Crisp, and Bud Crisp) dressed up in Old Order garb at a tourist stop in Lancaster County. We are not Amish or Mennonite. We just live around here. On the right, George and me at a lighthouse in Canada.
My husband is a bit of an adventurer, so we travel whenever possible: Hawaii, Tahiti, China, Korea, the islands of the Caribbean, England, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece, and Croatia, as well as all over the United States. In the fall of 2011, we drove to three Canadian provinces – Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Who knew you could make the world’s creamiest sweet treat with snow and maple cream, straight from the tree?!
From left to right: Matthew, aka Bud, Crisp and his wife Heidi, Annville, PA.; Meribeth, and her husband, Will Thompson, Philadelphia, PA.; Will and his wife Lorilee Crisp, Huntsville, Alabama.; Josh, and his wife, Katie, Danville, PA. A veteran of Korea and Iraq, Josh is currently using the G.I. Bill to study to be a teacher.
Liam Crisp, 6 (upper left); Ainslee Crisp, 4 (upper right); a happy Easton Crisp (lower left); and a less happy Easton with a very happy Torren Crisp (lower right).
