She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, and now lives in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in Slate, Field, and the Boston Review, the Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse and other journals. She recommends reading anything by Kelly Link, and, not just for poets, Dan Chiasson’s latest collection Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon. She is also eagerly awaiting the sequels to many novels, among them Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies.