I am a poet, editor, translator, and teacher, of British birth but now living in Hainesport, NJ. Typically I write poetry, and formal poetry at that--my specialty is the sonnet. My latest collection, Sisters & Courtesans, is a series of persona poems following women throughout history. I have been three times a finalist for the Howard Nemerov sonnet award, and my three-sonnet sequence, "Zeitgeber," was the winner of the 2012 Rattle Reader's Choice award. You can find "Zeitgeber" in my chapbook, The Stolen From, which is a collection of poems about Alzheimer's and memory. This is also the theme of the most recent anthology I have edited, Forgetting Home. I have two daughters, a golden retriever, and a husband, and in my free time my secret vice is urban fantasy novels.