Her work appears in a wide diversity of venues from journals such as Clockhouse Review, magazines such as Pine Straw, O. Henry, and Salt, as well as Boston’s Three Penny News. Her poetry appears in numerous anthologies. She has won several awards from The NC Poetry Society, and was a Gilbert Chappell Distinguished Poet winner. She has written four books of poetry: Shelf Life, Sleeping Rough, A String of Black Pearls, and soon to be published, The Shape of Today (Main Street Rag). She runs a garden that feeds the homeless and hungry, and enjoys teaching poetry to seniors.