• MFA in poetry
Arizona State University, 2007-2010
Thesis: Still Falling; committee chair Norman Dubie
Committee: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Alberto Ríos, Jeannine Savard

• MA program in creative writing
Boston University, 1997-1999
1997-1998 Starbuck Fellow in Poetry
Thesis: Time Zones Made Easy; supervisors Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren

• MA in English literature
University of Cambridge, 1995-1997
First-class honors
Examinations in Shakespeare, Milton, tragedy, practical criticism, and literature post-1970
Dissertation: Refracturing Dickinson: Editorial Strategies and the Poet's Quantum Intentions; supervisor Dr. Susan Manning

• BA in philosophy
Mount Holyoke College, 1992-1995
(summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
Thesis: Boxes of Light; supervisors Mary Jo Salter,
Robert B. Shaw