Thanks for visiting my page! I'm the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). My poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, I've contributed articles to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. I earned a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and have been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, as well as scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, West Chester Poetry Conference, and Antioch Writers' Workshop. Awards include the Elliston Poetry Prize, the Ruth Cable Poetry Prize, and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize. I am Associate Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Poetry Editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. I live in New York City area with my two children.