is a writer, massage therapist, and recovering nomad. She is the recipient of a 2013 Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Her poems have appeared, or will appear, in Best New Poets 2014, Colorado Review, Verse Daily, Verse Wisconsin, Nimrod, Word Riot, Chautauqua, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two-year-old daughter.