Self-Potrait in the Nude

is the author of five books of poems, including her most recent, Wonder Rooms (Free Verse Editions of Parlor Press, 2015). The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been published in Poetry, Paris Review, Shenandoah, Image, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She is professor emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.