I am the author most recently of Ordinary Fissures (forthcoming from Kelsay Books in April 2024). I have also published two chapbooks: Tell the Bees: Poem About Bees & Beekeeping (A3 Press, 2019), and Full Mouth: Poems about Food (Finishing Line Press, 2020).  My poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Threepenny Review, Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Raleigh Review, and Spank the Carp, among others. 

I grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where I attended the public schools. I went on to get a BA in English from Connecticut College and an MA/PhD in American Literature from Tufts University. At Connecticut, I studied poetry writing with Charles Hartman; at Tufts I worked with Deborah Digges.

I lived in Washington D.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Watertown, and Arlington, Massachusetts, before returning to Amherst in 2005. I am now Assistant Director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and I live in a house built by Emily Dickinson’s cousin with my youngest adult child, a white dog named Sully, and a black cat named Luna.