After a Yale PhD in French and Spanish, she moved to California, where she has been writing poetry, criticism and translating other poets. She is the past president of PEN Orange County and has written many letters for writers harassed or jailed worldwide. She is an editor of the “California Poetry Quarterly.” Her books are “Bodyscapes” (1995); “Words of Art” (2005); “Ungeschicktes Kind” (Awkward Child, to be published in Germany), and “The Five Senses: 100 Love Poems in Alphabetical Order” (tbp). She has published four haiku chapbooks in five languages and daily continues to write haiku. She is also working on short stories and a novel, and is always writing and translating poetry.