A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, she also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean for three years before earning an M.A.R. in Religion and Visual Arts from Yale in 1999, as well as an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2006. Her work is represented in many private and public collections including The Tate Modern, Oberlin College, The Love Library at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. She was recently honored by MCLA with a Creative Project Award and the Hardman Initiative Grant to create an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of writing and art.