Her work appeared in Field, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Missouri Review. She lived in Fresno, California.
Awards
Ingram Merrill Fellowship
1979 National Poetry Series
Works
"The Workout", The Atlantic, December 2002
"Conversions", Ploughshares, Winter 1988
Silks: Poems. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1980.
Talking to Water (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985)
The pilgrim among us. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-1200-0.
Philip Levine, ed. (2007). A sweetness rising: new and selected poems. Great Valley Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-063-8.
Anthologies
Stan Yogi, ed. (1996). "Some Voices". Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-930588-82-3.
Dave Smith, David Bottoms, eds. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, eds. (2001). How much earth: the Fresno poets. Roundhouse Press. ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Michael Collier, ed. (1995). "Chestnuts for Verdi". The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-1229-1.
