Was born in Paris in 1940.

Spent some time at the Sorbonne before teaching Classics in France and in the United States at Bard College, Berkeley, Harvard… That was in the Sixties.

Met Keith Barnes in Paris in 1963.

Had a show of her acrylics at the French Cultural Center in Haifa in 1967.

In the Seventies she was back in the United States: Berkeley, City College of San Francisco.

Taught at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen from 1974 to 1976.

Returned to Paris in 1976.

Published her thesis in 1977 : Les Ecrivains beats et le voyage, Chronologie des écrivains beats jusqu'en 1969, Marcel Didier, Paris.

In the Eighties and the Nineties, devoted herself to International Cooperation in Cultural Affairs.

In 1987, Maurice Nadeau published K.B. with a selection of poems of Keith Barnes she had translated into French.

From 2001 to 2008 : gave conferences and read numerous poems of Keith Barnes in Paris, at La Maroquinerie, at the Club des Poètes, before the Cercle Aliénor, under the aegis of the Société des Poètes Français, at the Senate, at the Café de la Mairie, place Saint-Sulpice, at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris at the Galerie MBH, at the Festival Franco-anglais de poésie, with the Rencontres Européennes, at the Gobelune (slam), at the Florian Library in Rambouillet, at the MLC of Montmorency, in Metz at the Café Littéraire, in Normandy : in Pont-L’Evêque, at the Puces Gourmandes, at Touch d’Auge, at the Médiathèque of Lisieux.

2002 Les Bougons, La Bartavelle (collection "romans et proses")

2003 : Keith Barnes, Œuvre poétique / Collected Poems, ouverture de Maurice Nadeau,, traduction de Jacqueline Starer, éditions d’écarts, Paris.

2002, 2003, Broadcast on the poet and his work on IDFM Radio-Enghien Ile-de-France.

2003, 2004,  Broadcast of poems of Keith Barnes on France Culture / Poésie sur Parole.

2003, 2005, 2007 : Invited by the Biennales Internationales de Poésie (Liège, Belgium)

2005, 2006, 2007 : Files, translations and articles on Wilfred Owen and Keith Barnes, Women Poets of the Beat Generation, Kenneth White, Jacques Dupin, Jean-Luc Wauthier etc. in Le Journal des Poètes (Brussels).

2007 :  First bilingual edition of K.B. Keith Barnes, with the English translation of Helen McPhail, editions d’écarts, Dol-de-Bretagne.

2006, 2007, 2008: Organizes and takes part in the Déjeuner des Poètes of the Journal des Poètes in Paris.

Since 2006; Representative for Le Journal des Poètes in France