was born, raised, and educated in New York City. She has studied poetry at the Joiner Institute at UMass in Boston. Her translations of the Haitian poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy have been published in Massachusetts Review, the anthology Into English (Graywolf Press), and And There Will Be Singing: An Anthology of International Writing. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Soundings East, I-70 Review, Ibbetson Street, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other journals.