I am a poet, mother, wife, sometime scholar, former college professor, and part-time desert rancher, who now lives in the Los Angeles basin. I also like to collect things--green parrot feathers, paintings with letters in them, vintage postcards, old shoe-shine stands. I love to read other people's poems. I am an avid member of several online communities and keep up with friends (many of whom regrettably remain only virtual) via blogs and Facebook.
Join me on my blog (LINK ABOVE RIGHT) as I think about poetry--mine and others--and just generally document my writing life.
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Click here to be directed to my blog: Selvage
Current ProjectsIn Defense of Objects My poetry collection won the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and will be published by Bear Star Press in Fall 2009. It contains poems written between 1999 and 2008, including those previously published in such journals as Diner, Harpur Palate, North American Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, and GSU Review.Eve in L.A.This chapbook-length collection is spoken in the voice of a modern-day Eve. Each poem in the series begins with an epigraph from Paradise Lost, but the speaker is decidedly twenty-first century and addresses what it means to inhabit the American West, particularly the city of Los Angeles. Poems from this collection have been published or are forthcoming in the L.A. Review and The Antigonish Review.
Subject to SearchFrom object to subject in this second collection of poems, currently in progress.
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