Lavecchia, Ali

Ali LaVecchia is a longtime aficionado of suspense novels, predominantly detective and mystery. She got the bug for writing when she won first place in a seventh grade essay contest on "Safety in the Schools" followed by another in eighth grade for "What Freedom Means to Me." Since then, she's been writing stories, poems and plays. As a former high school and middle school English and Acting teacher as well as administrator in the New Jersey public school system, Ali always has encouraged creativity in her students, especially on paper and on stage. Today, Ali teaches and trains novice teacher...