She is the author of The Pattern Maker’s Daughter (Bottom Dog, 2012) and is completing her memoir, Some Girls Have Auras of Bright Colors. She is a PA Council on the Arts fellow, a winner of the Sandburg-Livesay Award, and her poetry collection earned second place in the Working Class Studies Tillie Olsen award competition. She has an MFA from Wilkes University. Reprinted from The Pattern Maker’s Daughter: Poems (2012)by permission of Bottom Dog Press and Sandee Gertz Umbach. Copyright © 2012. More Poetry