Read her poem Stealing The Scream on Poets.org. She was raised in Houston, Texas and graduated from Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She works as a lawyer at New York University Law School, and teaches at Columbia University. She has been a Stegner, McDowell and Witter Bynner Fellow, had a Yaddo residency and is on the Advising Artists Council, for the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in Manhattan.