Born and raised in Rochester, New York, home of Kodachrome and Cab Calloway, she has been an educator for 30 years, currently a communications prof at SUNY Cortland. Her poems appeared recently in the HIV Here & Now poem-a-day countdown, two Prince memorial anthologies, and the journals Crow Hollow 19 and Altered Reality Magazine. New abecedarians are forthcoming in a Nancy Drew anthology and Breastfeeding Medicine.