Her book-length study of poetry by American women, The Poetics of Enclosure, is under consideration at a university press. She received a summer fellowship for that project in 1996 from the American Association of University Women and has an article on Gwendolyn Brooks forthcoming in Callaloo, and an essay on Dickinson forthcoming in an interdisciplinary collection, Nature, Woman, and the Artifice of Politics. She has published essays on Rita Dove, and her poems have been published or are forthcoming in America, Gathering of the Tribes, Northeast Journal, Critical Matrix, and other journals. She lives in Staunton VA with her husband and two-year-old daughter.