My life as a published poet began in 2007 when I won the grand prize in Writer’s Digest 2nd Annual Poetry award. Since then, I found and studied under a wonderful mentor, poet Andrea Hollander, have published hundreds of poems, read my poetry on WLRN, South Florida’s NPR news station and was nominated for Pushcart Prizes. I’m now the author of three poetry chapbooks, the most recent of which is Simultaneous States (2025) by Bainbridge Island Press. In 2025, I became a member of Old Scratch Press, a poetry/short form writers collective, and a full-length book is forthcoming from their press.
By day I am a university reference librarian, but find myself “continually assaulted by poetry,” as Jorge Luis Borges put it. I live by a lake with three cats who do not help in my writing at all, and a wonderful astronomer husband who does: he is my first reader.
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