poetry has new work forthcoming in Escape Into Life and Spillway. She has been previously published in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Redwood Coast Review, The Sand Hill Review, Southern Humanities Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and ZYZZYVA as well as the anthology First Water: Best of Pirene’s Fountain and Diane Lockward’s book, The Crafty Poet. She shares her fully-caffeinated life with her tall husband, two ever-growing sons, and their immortal basset hound in Northern California.