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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I was recently mentioned in the Hometown Pasadena news story about the May Day open house at Red Hen Press.
Current ProjectsIn Defense of Objects My first full-length poetry collection won the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was published by Bear Star Press in Fall 2009. It contains poems written between 1999 and 2008. Some of those appeared in such journals as Diner, Harpur Palate, North American Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, and GSU Review.
TR/I/A/L
This completed chapbook was initially inspired by the experience of serving on an L.A. County Superior Court jury in November-December, 2009. It's an extended meditation on making choices. Deer antlers and branches figure large. Poems from this collection have appeared in The Driftwood Review.
Eve in L.A.This chapbook (in progress) is spoken in the voice of a modern-day Eve 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, Little Patuxent Review, and The Antigonish Review.
Subject to SearchFrom object to subject in this second full-length collection of poems, currently in progress.
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