She served in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, and has also worked for the United Nations and the American Civil Liberties Union. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The New York Quarterly, Chautauqua, The Broadkill Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Oberon, Potomac Review, Medical Literary Messenger, and Loch Raven Review, as well as in three anthologies. Two of her poems have won awards at The Chautauqua Institution. She is now retired and lives in Washington, DC and devotes her time to poetry and the piano.