Her poetry has won awards in Highland Park’s Poetry Challenge, the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Contest, and in the Journal of Modern Poetry. She has been published in After Hours, RHINO 2008, Avocet, Poetic License, Journal of Modern Poetry, Blue Hour Magazine, Exact Change Press, Mom Egg Review, The Poetry Storehouse, RHINO 2015, in anthologies and online blogs. Her first chapbook of poems, Left Behind, was recently published by Finishing Line Press (2015). Ever since childhood, the sounds and images of words have intrigued her.