While she spends most of her time teaching English at Johnson County Community College, she spent the 2016-2017 school year in Xi’an, China. Then she spent her winter holiday 2018 in Pakistan. In addition to writing, she loves volunteering, running, and drinking coffee. Her recent publications include poetry in Apeiron Review, The Thorny Locust, Kansas English, and 365 Poems/ 365 Days Anthology Vol. 2.