I received my MFA from Hollins University. I am the 2012 recipient of the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, Notre Dame Review, New South, The Malahat Review, Water~Stone Review, Cold Mountain Review, Salamander, Folio, Copper Nickel, The Journal, KNOCK, Jabberwock Review, Basalt, and Quiddity.