is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Practicing Amnesia. Her other titles include The Fray, a collaborative chapbook of poetry and embroidery with artist Barbara Schulman. She received one of her two Gertrude Stein Awards for a poem in Voiceunders, her first book. She is an associate professor of literature and writing at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.