is a poet and scholar. She is the author of Pilgrimly (Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, New Letters, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She also publishes scholarly essays on 20th-21st century poetries. Her current manuscript “For the Green & Signifying Fields” was selected as a semifinalist for the 2023 Interim Test Site Poetry Prize and finalist for both the 2023 Tupelo Press Helena Whitehill Award and the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize.
She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and a Ph.D. in English from the Poetics program at SUNY Buffalo. She is currently professor of English at Bethel College in Kansas, where she teaches literature and creative writing, runs a visiting writers series, and serves as faculty mentor to the undergraduate literary magazine YAWP! She is the recipient of fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Brown Foundation. She lives near Wichita, Kansas with her son.
