She graduated from Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion.

With Avery Burns, Joseph Noble, Rusty Morrison, and Brian Strang, she co-edits 26 magazine. With Colleen Lookingbill, she co-edits the EtherDome Chapbook series which publishes chapbooks by emerging women poets, and she co-edits Instance Press withBeth Anderson and Stacy Szymaszek.

Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and New American Quarterly.

She moved from the Bay Area to Boulder, Colorado to teach at the University of Colorado.

• "Beggar"; "Congratulations"; "Red", The Brooklyn Rail, September 2007
• "QUENCH", Woodland Pattern
• "Moonlight", Literary Salt