I'm Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at UC Davis.
As an academic, I published books on women writers, women in history, feminist criticism, and men’s movements. My food memoir, Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, came out with She Writes Press in 2013, received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly Select, and won twelve independent press awards. A mystery, Oink, appeared with She Writes Press in 2017. I am at work on a second mystery, Terroir, which features women wine makers at a land grant university.