I've spent my entire adult life as a parent, a teacher, a painter, and a writer; at various times, I've been paid to do each of them.
I'm a fifth-generation Oregonian, but I live now in São Paulo, Brazil. I teach literature at an international high school, and I live with my eight-year-old son and my husband. My three adult daughters live in the US and in Ireland. My people were and are sailors, loggers, hippies, addicts, protestors, patriots, criminals, artists, and dirt-diggers. I use my poetry and my stories as a way to figure out my place among them. As I age, and the world widens, this work is more pressing to me.