BS English and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

MFA in Creative Writing, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

MLS, Indiana University

Jobs I’ve held: pretzel stand hawker, ice-cream scooper, candy counter sales, uniform sales, test-tube washer, small press intern, department store accessories sales, barista, legal proofreader, English comp TA, literary journal editor, museum docent, tabloid editor, English comp lecturer, hotel maid, hotel front desk manager, waitress, university administrative assistant, book reviewer, summer camp creative writing instructor, library school graduate student fellow, academic library intern, public library intern, community college public service librarian, children’s librarian, reference librarian, library webmaster and social media person, library cataloger.

My path: Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Madison, Wisconsin to Minneapolis, Minnesota to Fairbanks, Alaska to Eugene, Oregon; back to Fairbanks; then to Bloomington, Indiana; next to Lubbock, Texas; then to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where I’ve been living for over 20 years. It feels like just now I’ve arrived.

Residency: Shannaghe, Belfast, Maine, April 2026

Poetry

• “Banjo Man” in Jazz Street Fall 1985
• “Running”Cream City Review Summer 1988; reprinted in Crossing Boundaries an International Anthology of Women’s Experiences in Sport, 1999
• “Dancing in the Living Room” in Zone 3, Fall 1991
• “Place” in Kansas Quarterly, 1992
• “Mother of the Groom” in Poetry Motel, 1991
• “Mid-April Cooking Broccoli” in Fireweed, April 1992
• “The Egg Man” in Fireweed, October 1992
• “Mary Finishes her Last Growing Spurt” in Pearl, 1992
• “Amy’s Bath” in e journal, 1998
• “Yellow” in Words on Wheels a collection of poems that were displayed on the city buses in Bloomington, IN 2001
• “Skye Won’t Wear Shoes” in Monday Coffee & Other Stories of Mothering Children with Special Needs, 2013

Short story

• “Alaska Holiday” Words of Wisdom, Spring 1996

Student Awards

• Third place Poetry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, judged by Alicia Ostriker, 1986
• First place, Fiction contest, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1990