Before coming to Bowie, she taught at Del Valle High School for seven years. She currently teaches World Literature and Creative Writing. Before becoming a teacher, she was a music journalist for ten years in Boston, MA. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College and a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University. During her career as a journalist, her work appeared in Stuff@Night, XLR8R Magazine and Boston’s Weekly Dig. She also contributed articles on a volunteer basis to What’s Up Magazine and Spare Change, which are two magazines that benefit the homeless. Her poetry has appeared in Saul Williams’ poetry anthology Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, The Barefoot Press Anthology Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer’s, The Red Paint Hill Anthology Mother is a Verb, 5AM Magazine, Touchstone Literary Journal and on the online journal La Fovea.