She is a project coordinator for Community Access to the Arts, an organization in Stockbridge, Mass., that brings arts programs to the developmentally disabled, children and the elderly. She is also a poet. She graduated from Vassar College and received a master's degree in creative writing from New York University. Her father, an emeritus professor of English at Monmouth University, is the producing artistic director of the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank. Her mother, Joan H. Rechnitz, is the theater's associate producer.