Her daughters rowed for her while she earned her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts and found home. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, 2009, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry in 2010 and has appeared or is forthcoming inCider Press Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Compass Rose, Confrontation, Eclipse, Lake Effect, Monarch Review, Permafrost, Spoon River Poetry Review, Studio One, Whiskey Island Magazine, and others. Her first poetry collection in search of publication strives to dignify the small, hard truths that most won’t dare say, but that beg telling.