She holds an MA from Bridgewater College in Massachusetts and a PhD from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her doctoral thesis is entitled The Impact of Contemporary Theological Attitudes towards Poverty on William Wordsworth’s Writing and was nominated by her dissertation committee for SIU Carbondale’s Outstanding Dissertation Award of 2008. Her research combines analysis of religious writings from Anglican, Evangelical, Methodist, and Quaker traditions and the writings of William Wordsworth. Before finding her way into academia, she worked as a writer and editor of religious material.