Maureen's most recent poetry collection is Rogue Wave at Glass Beach (March Street Press). Her chapbook, Quickening, was published by March Street Press in 2007. This collection was also first runner-up in the 2007 Finishing Line Press/ New Women's Voices competition. She has also been a finalist in several other book contests. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Crossing the boundary between the arts and the sciences, her poems have been included in a textbook on computer graphics and geometric modeling and used in a university-level geology course.
A New Zealander by birth, she is currently working on a non-fiction book about her sister, whose work on Maori land rights issues helped change New Zealand society over the past several decades by moving Maori culture and language into the mainstream.
She is executive director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. In previous years she helped organize the monthly Waverley Writers poetry readings in Palo Alto, CA. She has led poetry workshops for Waverley Writers and for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference.
Her other interests include gardening, which she talks about on her web journal, and observing the wildlife around her home on the Mendocino Coast of California.
