She graduated from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and from the University of New Mexico with an M.A.She teaches at the The Art Institute of California — San Francisco.

Her work appeared in The Georgia Review, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Hobart, and Blue Mesa Review.

She lives in San Francisco, with her partner, the novelist Anne Raeff.

• "Idyllic Little Bali", Prairie Schooner, Summer 2009
• "The Bigness of the World", Bellingham Review, Issue 61
• "And Down We Went", Five Chapters

• After the Parade.