I spent my childhood loving the low slung mountains and dogwood of Tennessee; now, in Minnesota, I love the bluffs and lakes. My poems have appeared in various literary magazines, including dislocate, Wicked Alice, Permafrost, and Breakwater Review. I hope to study the art of letterpress more closely with my ancient Kelsey 5 x 8, but for now, I am content having my poem "Harry Houdini" appear as a postcard broadside from Yes Press. I’m currently an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, and I expect to graduate in 2011 with a thesis of poems on (in)fertility. I live just down the Mississippi in Red Wing with my husband and menagerie, which currently includes two cats, two dogs, the occasional refugee wildlife, and in January, we will add a baby girl to the mix.

My chapbook, The Recent History of Middle Sand Lake, will be published by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press (due out 12/15/10), and takes a look at the journey my grandfather went on in the last years of his life, mired in Alzheimer's, dementia, the deterioration of the body. I am drawn to poems that take a close look at the natural world, and I love to collect: field guides, diagrams, stones from the river.