I was born in Los Angeles at a time when men and women followed their proscribed social roles. In my own case, I married at an early age in the 1950s. Caught up in the social changes of the 1960s and 70s, I returned to school, beginning at a community college and eventually receiving a doctorate in psychoanalysis. I have been in private practice since 1988.
As a gay, female psychotherapist, I write character-driven novels that balance humor and tragedy and the interior of the human mind.
My recently released novel, Flowers from Iraq, is about Kathleen Moore, a closeted Army physician who is injured while serving in Iraq. Faced with a life-altering wound and plagued by nightmares, she is compelled to confront the dark childhood memories that haunt her.
I am currently writing, The Girls, a novel that follows a group of women from the 1970s to 2020, a hypothetical future when the United States Senate passes the Freedom to Marry Act.
Wishing you a thought provoking read.
Sunny Alexander
