Her most recent poetry collection, Rhythm & Booze, was Maxine Kumin’s selection for the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. Her forthcoming collection, Jazz Funeral, is David Mason’s selection for the 2009 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. She was also the winner of the first Open Poetry Ltd International Sonnet Competition. Individual poems have appeared in such journals as The Antioch Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, and London Magazine, as well as in anthologies such as Poetry: A Pocket Edition and The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. She has been a George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, a New Orleans Writer in Residence at Tulane University, and a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at Vilnius Pedagogical University.