My chapbook, Juliet as Herself, is the winner of the 2004 Hudson Valley Writers' Center Slapering Hol chapbook contest and was a semi finalist in the “Discovery”/The Nation and Byline Press contests.  The poem, "No Canoodle"  from my Lexica series  is the winner of the 2004 Baltimore Review contest. Another poem from this series, "Glossolalia",  is the winner of the 2004 James Wright Poetry Award from the Mid-American Review.

My work has appeared in a number of literacy magazines, including Fourteen Hills, Wisconsin Review, Patterson Review, Nimrod, Runes, Spoon River Quarterly, Two Rivers Review, Paper Street, Chautauqua, and Poetry Motel. I have also been a finalist in poetry contests administered by River Styx and The Cream City Review.     

I am active in the San Francisco Bay Area Poet's Workshop, which can be visited at www.thirteenways.org.  I hold a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz, where I worked closely with Ray Carver.