I am the author of Always a Blue House (Saddle Road Press, 2016) finalist in the 2016 National Federation of Press Woman Awards, and In the Poem an Ocean (Big Table Publishing, 2011).  My work appears in journals and anthologies including Longridge Review, The MacGuffin, Rain Taxi and Brevity Blog and Unmasked, Women Over Fifty Write About Sex and Intimacy (Weeping Willow Books). Two of my poems received 1st and 2nd prizes in the 2011 Maggi H. Meyer Poetry Prize competition. One of my essays was a finalist in the 2019 Willamette Writers Kay Snow Awards. I was a 2022 writer-in-residence at Craigardan Collective.

I spent twenty-nine years working in public education, twenty-three years as a middle school English/Language Arts teacher and six years as an instructional coach. Now that I’m retired, I can spend as much time as possible writing.

Born in Texas, I grew up in Chicago and moved to Portland, Oregon in 2022 after over 40 years living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even though I have almost settled down, I still travel as often as I can.