is professor emerita from American University and the artistic director of the Redwoods Opera in Mendocino, California. Her solo recitals throughout the US, South America, Scandinavia, Japan, and Europe have been acclaimed. Recently featured in Tupelo Press's 30/30 challenge, she has been published in Clementine, Poeming Pigeon, Crack the Spine, The Feminine Collective, and Edison Literary Review.  Her chapbook, unraveled, won second prize in the Yellow Chair Press Competition and is forthcoming.