earned an MFA in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize and a finalist for "Discovery"/The Nation and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. She won a poetry book award for Traceries from ABZ Press in 2014 (selected by C. D. Wright) and is a recent reviewer for the Antioch Review.