Her collection of poetry Nelson & The Huruburu Bird was published by Wild Honey Press in 2003. Recent publications include two chapbooks, An Educated Heart and Vivas, and an ebook, China Dogs. She is the author of two plays, The Golden Hair and Safe Home, a short book on James Joyce, Joyce - A Clew, two books of interviews with Irish artists, Eithne Jordan and Micael Mulcahy, and was a journalist for eight years in Ireland and the United Sates. She earned a PhD in English Literature from Purdue University in 2001 and lives with her two daughters in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches poetry at Rhode Island School of Design.