In 2012, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing / Poetry from Western State Colorado University. Her first collection, Beyond All Bearing, appeared from Wipf and Stock this year. Her poems have appeared in Academic Questions, The Anglican Theological Review, Mezzo Cammin, Dappled Things, and many other journals, and her one-act libretto, "The Price of Pomegranates," was scored by Jerome Malek and was produced in the second annual Writing the Rockies New Opera Workshop in 2016. Along with teaching and writing, she serves as the Managing Editor of Think, Wetern's journal of poetry, criticism, and reviews.