A former (18 years) Oakland resident and now well on my way to being a crazy cat lady, I reside in sunny Oregon with my husband and our five “children.” My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Alehouse Press, Arabesques Review (Contemporary Women Writers, edition), Ellipsis, Pank, and PMS. I interned for CALYX Journal in the winter of 2005 and won a writing residency from Soapstone in 2006.