Roberta studied music, English literature, and creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her approach to writing is to introduce characters who, like themes in a musical composition, are revisited throughout the work in various tonalities: grief, anxiety, contentment, stoicism, and love. Her focus in writing is to develop relationships through inner dialog, shifts in time, and changes in point of view, so that characters have three dimensional qualities. She has a room of her own and prefers fresh paper and pens. She constantly argues with the computer and loses. She would rather sit...