Mrs. Ocone is a veteran MTHS communications/journalism educator and a senior writer/editor for Jersey Shore Magazine.  Her debut novel Enduring the Waves will be published by Wild Rose Press later this year. Her work has also been published in Read Furiously’s anthology, Stay Salty: Life in the Garden State and Red Penguin Books’ Where Flowers Bloom, the leaves fall, and ‘Tis the Season: Poems for Your Holiday Spirit, among others.