Her work has appeared widely in venues including the Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Meridian, Southern Humanities Review, Vinyl, PANK, and more. Since completing her MFA at the University of Oregon, she has received prizes and fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Bridgeport Arts Center, Willapa Bay AiR, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, in addition to others. Recently, she has focused on ways that “violence, both overt and institutional, shapes perception of one’s community and environment as well as interaction with others.” Nominated by Djerassi Resident Artists Program, she will be in residence at the Island Institute in Sitka.