She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, her M.F.A. in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and B.A. degrees in Creative Writing and in Music from Susquehanna University. She and her wife currently live in Huntsville, Alabama, where she teaches at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has written two chapbooks of poems, inter: burial places (Porkbelly Press, 2016) and Containers (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). This is her first book.