Her work was also selected for Best New Poets 2007, for which she was featured at the Spring 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book. She recently won the 2010 First Book Award from Kore Press for her book of poems, Love and the Eye, as well as a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and she also holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from New York University.