My poetry has previously been published in Paddlefish, Icon, Tributaries, The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology and other publications. My essays have been published in Full Circle, Out of Line, Muse, Riverwind, Whiskey Island, Belt Magazine and the books Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology and Cleveland in Prose and Poetry.
I completed an M.A. in English and Creative Nonfiction Writing from Cleveland State University in 2002, where I was awarded the Leonard Trawick Creative Writing Prize for nonfiction writing. My poem “Another Country†was also selected as a Runner-Up in the 2010 “Poetry in the Garden†contest sponsored by Case Western Reserve University.