She was raised in
Moorestown Township, New Jersey, where she attended the Quaker
Moorestown Friends School. She earned her B.A. and an M.A.and a Hopwood Award from the
University of Michigan; and an M.F.A. from
Warren Wilson College. She lives in
Hardwick, Vermont, and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including
The Beloit Poetry Journal,
Boston Review,
Conduit,
Field,
Gettysburg Review,
Indiana Review,
The Journal,
The Kenyon Review,
Literary Imagination,
Manoa,
Notre Dame Review,
New Orleans Review,
The North American Review,
Northwest Review,
Paris Review,
The Progressive,
Willow Springs. ==Honors and awards==