Fourteen books of poetry include The Wingback Chair, Bittersweet, Selected Poems, Dead Horses, The Atrocity Book, The Lonely Hearts Killers, How The Sky Begins to Fall, The Boundary Waters, Blue Woman Dancing in the Nerve, Chagall Poems, Dream Tree, Beheading the Children, X1 Poems. Over 2000 poems in journals such as Poetry, Grand Street, Atlanta Review, New York Quarterly, Gargoyle, etc.Fellowship in Literature and two Literary Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, honorable mention in James Hearst Poetry Contest (2008),finalist in Nimrod's Pablo Neruda contest (2010 and 2012) poems and short fiction in several anthologies. One of my poems is a winner in the 2014 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest.Since 1983, I have been editor of Illinois Racing News, a monthly publication focused on the breeding and racing of Thoroughbreds in the midwest. I am also associate editor of Kentucky Review and FutureCycle Press. I have three grown children and live with my husband on a small horse farm in northern Illinois.