Tricia Chiarelli is a budding free-lance writer who specializes in fiction.  She grew up in Kings Park where she lived most of her life.  Despite having a neurological disease that renders her in a wheel-chair with some limited use of her hands, she is unstoppable when it comes to her passion to write.   She has been published in local papers including Smithtown Today.

The almost forty-year just gained further independence in a program she is part of called Independent Support Services by moving out into her own home with the help of support staff.

Her other interests include reading and creating silk flower arrangements.   She has a few pieces in the works that include a teen novel and a novella.  Smithtown Today is happy to have Tricia join us as an intern.