With three adopted children of her own, she organizes adoption conferences in Ann Arbor and works with WRITE LINK, an outreach program for children in under-served schools. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Antigonish Review, Asspants, Cream City Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Mud House, Interim, Pisgah Review, Sanskrit, Santa Monica Review and Tusculum Review, and has been to Glimmer Train’s Top 25.