She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Laurel Review, Fine Madness, and Poet Lore , among others. Her manuscript, Where You Live in Winter , was a finalist for the WordWorks Washington Prize, StoryLine Press Book Award, The Quarterly Review of Literature Book Award, and is seeking a publisher. She recently received a Colorado Council on the Arts Artists Fellowship in Literature for Poetry. At the edge of citrus orchards and cotton fields Where the desert begins. From South Mountain Lights spread out and connect a series of strip malls And drive-up liquors.
Phoenix is a city of drifters.
She is so small I can hold her. The world is filled with darkness. I miss the jackrabbits and quail. I miss my father Holding my daughter, As he once held me. I'm from a city of drifters.