She graduated from the University of Oregon with an M.A. and Ph.D. in English. She taught at California Polytechnic State University, Oberlin College, and The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.
Awards
Pushcart Prize
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship
California Arts Council Fellowship
MacDowell Colony residency
Ohio Arts Council grant
2001 FIELD Poetry Prize
2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize, from the Poetry Society of America
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
"Proverbs", Verse Daily
Tryst, Oberlin College Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-932440-35-8
Chez Nous, Oberlin College Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-932440-99-0
Voice-Over, Oberlin College Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-932440-91-4
The Uses of Passion (Peregrine Smith Books, 1995)
Anthologies
"Kind of Blue", Cap City Poets, Pudding House Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58998-699-2
"Now and Again: The Autobiography of Basket", The Extraordinary Tide, Columbia University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4
"Nocturne"; Serenade", Geography of Home, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5
Queer Dog, Cleis Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-57344-071-4
