Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
Awards
2007 Guggenheim fellowship
Works
"Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006
"Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008
"Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation
Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-618-93342-6
Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, ISBN 978-0-618-17152-1
The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, ISBN 978-0-395-87707-4
Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983, ISBN 978-0-914086-42-0
Anthologies
"My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-303767-5
"The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-252-06133-2
"Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-252-07154-6
Non-fiction
Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history, Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-45450-2