For nearly two decades, Paula has hosted and produced Calliope’s Corner – The Place Where Poets and Songwriters Meet, on 88.7FM Radio Hofstra University. Her radio show is a Press Club of Long Island (PCLI) and Gracie Award-winning poetry and arts program, which has featured a wide variety of both national and local figures. Paula has also won several Press Club of Long Island accolades for What’s the Buzz®, an informational radio broadcast. 

Paula has published four chapbooks: One Woman’s Cathartic Release in Poetry, The Gift of Thanksgiving and Done That: Poetry and Posics™ and Occasion Poems. Her poetry has been featured in a multitude of anthologies:  The Writing Resilience Anthology, The Long Island Quarterly, The Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review, The PPA Literary Review, Nomads Choir, Bards Annual, The Vault’s Soul Fountain, Whispers and Shouts, Writing Outside the Lines, LunaSea Press’ Hysteria and The National Association of Poetry Therapists’ Poet’s Process, among others. 

Paula is a co-founding member of The Acoustic Poets Network© and has pioneered a genre of performance poetry she calls Posics™. Through The APN Paula released three spoken word albums: Emissary, Bittersweet and Done That: Poetry and Posics™ The Audio Version.  Her spoken word poetry can be heard on several compilation CDs: The Vault’s Fear No Art, The Poe Project, The Shakespeare’s Project and The Long Island Original Music Association’s LIOMA.

As a school counselor for over thirty years, Paula has spearheaded several service-learning programs, including the award-winning Learning and Understanding through Video (LUV) productions, the Sisters Office Worker Program and her successful Poetry Club.  As a member of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission’s Youth Conference Committee, her work has impacted thousands of adolescents. Paula was the chairperson of the Nassau Counselors’ Association Counselor, Parent and Administrators Conference Committee and was honored by the Nassau Counselors’ Association as one of their “School Counselors of the Year.” She is also a March of Dimes Golden Apple Award-winner and a recipient of The Vault’s Guardian Angel Award.  

Paula received an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Communications from Adelphi University. She holds a Master’s in School Counseling Education and an Advanced Certificate in Educational Leadership from Long Island University. In 2023, Paula became a Journal to the Self ® Certified Journal Writing Instructor. She has been facilitating introspective writing workshops. Most recently she can be found moderating free verse workshops at the Long Beach ,NY Library and Uniondale , NY Library. She also moderates a poetry discussion group at the Port Washington Library, NY.

Paula is frequently found reciting her poetry at Performance Poetry Association events and at her own APN sponsored programs along with other venues across Long Island.  She currently resides in Long Beach, New York.