Born in Dallas, I grew up on a small farm near Corsicana, Texas. I have a BA in philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, an MA in English literature from the University of Cambridge, and an MFA from Arizona State University in poetry. This fall I will enter the University of Houston's creative writing program as a PhD candidate, class of 2016.

I currently teach rhetoric at Estrella Mountain Community College; last fall, I taught poetry at Mesa Community College and critical thinking & reading for ASU's University Academic Success Programs.

My editorial experience includes serving as editorial assistant at the late Partisan Review, and freelancing as a film/arts critic and copyeditor for the Santa Fe Reporter. Currently, I'm an associate editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.

My poems have appeared in AGNI, American Scholar, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fish Drum, Gertrude, Harvard Review, Tricycle, Salamander and Upstairs at Duroc, as well as being featured on Poetry Daily; my translations have appeared in An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from France (MLA, 2008), and my limited-edition chapbook DOE is available from Particle Series Books.