She has written three books of poetry: Weather Eye Open (University of California Press, 2005), Green is the Orator (University of California Press, 2010), and Loom (Omnidawn Publishing, 2013. She finished her MFA in poetry at the University of Montana in 2000 and continues to feel gratitude and love for the gifts she received there. Just the other day she had a vivid memory of walking with her teacher Patricia Goedicke, who pointed out water ouzels flying in and out of a steep mudbank.