She is Winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. Her poems have been published in American and international journals including Blackbird, The Boiler, Borderlands Texas Review, The Indianola Review, James Franco Review, The Lake for Poetry, Lunch Ticket, Mizna, The Ofi Press Mexico, Sukoon, and the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. Several of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, for “Immigrant” in 2015 and for “Middle Village” and “Ruin” in 2016. She is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Redmond, Washington with her family. She is also the author of a collection of poems, Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).