A fourth book of poems, The Bad Secret, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2004, and a book of criticism, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing, was recently published by SUNY Press (see www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60726 for more info). Recent poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Southern Review. She resides in Washington, DC with her husband and daughter.