She graduated from University of Buffalo, and Cornell University with a PhD.She taught at Cornell University, the College of Charleston, and the University of Miami.

Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and Yale Italian Poetry (translations).

She lives in Indiana, where she and her husband teach at Valparaiso University, with their daughter.

• "Bête Noire", Umbrella Journal, Winter 2002
• "SMALL GIRL IN A GIFT SHOP", Valparaiso Poetry Review

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