Her poem "The Sand Man" won the First Place Poetry Award in the 2011 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition and has been published in Sugar House Review. Her poetry has also been published in ECOllective, Tar River Poetry, Weber Studies, CityArts, PetroGlyph and is forthcoming in Cave Wall. She has won the first place award for a book-length manuscript of poetry in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition. She is also a two-time recipient of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. She has recently become the poetry editor for the online journal Contemporary Rural Social Work and has developed a curriculum of poetry writing exercises to be used in poetry therapy groups. She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has spent the last 20 years in southern Utah.