She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and in spring 2010 will be teaching at Columbia University.

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and TriQuarterly.

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "The Pet", Slate, Jan. 14, 2003

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