She is the recent winner of the Lana Turner poetry prize, and her poetry has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, The Bellingham Review, The Colorado Review, The Eleventh Muse, Fourteen Hills, MARY, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Octopus Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky and other venues. Her chapbook, The Naturalist, was published by Achiote Press in 2008. Her first full-length book of poems, Harm, was recently published by Omnidawn Press. She lives on the eastern edge of Los Angeles county.