She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. In addition to her teaching duties, she serves as an assistant editor for North Carolina Literary Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Emerge Literary Journal, and Concho River Review. She is working on a novel. "Third Party" is inspired by not only the 2016 presidential election, but also by the three actual third party candidates featured in the story, whose words are direct quotes by them.