She was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and has spent her life thus far creating home in many different places. For the last three years she has taught poetry and creative writing with The Telling Room in Portland, Maine. As an undergraduate student she helped to run the Smith College Poetry Center, graduating with a BA in African-American Studies and Poetry from Smith College. She was also a 2013 poet in residence at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and has published in such places as the Adroit Journal and Rusted Radishes, a literary journal coming out of Beirut, Lebanon. She believes in the truth-telling power of poems and is interested in disrupting linear narratives, creating new language, and loving the heart.