I was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1947. My family emigrated to New York in 1958. I attended City College of New York and studied dance at The Henry Street Playhouse with Alwin Nikolais. I studied weaving at The Art Students League. In 1967 I moved to Boston and continued my weaving studies with Gretchen Mueller at The Weaver's Trade in Cambridge. I received a scholarship to Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and studied with Ted Hallman. In 1968 I taught weaving and off-loom techniques at the Vershire School in Vermont.

In 1969 my husband, Nahum Stiskin, and I moved to Japan. I continued persuing my interest in weaving and Japanese fiber arts and also studied Tea Ceremony at The Urasenke School of Tea in Kyoto. In 1970 my husband and I founded a publishing company in Kyoto called Autumn Press. My domain in the company was art director, book designer and director of production. We published books about Asia, nutrition, environment and poetry. Some of our best selling titles were: The Book of Tofu, which introduced Tofu to the west, Ann Marie Colbin's The Book of Whole Meals, Of Separateness and Merging, a collection of poetry by Ellen Bass, and Dr. Helen Caldicott's ground breaking manifesto for the anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear Madness. After seven years, we returned to Boston with our two children.

I continued my work as an art director, book designer and weaver. From 1980 to 1982 I worked as a designer/ art director for Illuminations, a graphic arts publishing company in Cambridge, Mass. Longing to focus on my own work and creativity, I studied papermaking with Joe Zina of Rugg Road Papers at Bennington College in Vermont. I have also studied with Bernard Toale and Elaine Koretsky. I have been a papermaker, specializing in 'pulp painting' for nineteen years. In 1987, I co-curated a regional survey of Handmade paper artists at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Mass. I am one of the founding artists of the Brickbottom Artists Buildings in Somerville, Mass. where I have recently begun to teach papermaking techniques in my studio. My work is in the permanent collections of many respected institutions and corporations. I continue to find inspiration for my work in visually translating the natural world into the medium of handmade paper.

My interest in healing and movement led me to study the Alexander Technique and in 1989 I received my certificate as a teacher.