is the author, most recently, of Bodies of Light (Serving House Books), her first full-length poetry collection. She is the author of Second Shift: Essays (Del Sol Press) and In the Garden of Stone (Hub City Press), winner of the South Carolina Novel Prize. Her short-story collections are Savage Pilgrims (Serving House Books) and My Mother’s War Stories (Winnow Press). She teaches in the BFA and MFA writing programs at Converse University.