The recipient of the 2007 Discovered Voices Award from Iron Horse Literary Review, she has published poems in, Best New Poets 2007, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Barrow Street and many other journals. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College, an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a doctorate from Western Michigan University. Her areas of specialization include American literature and modern and contemporary poetry. She joined the faculty in 2008.