About Me
I was raised in California and Montana, taught in Minnesota for many years, and recently returned west to Oregon. In 2017 Lynx House Press published my sixth book of poems, Body Turn to Rain: New & Selected Poems, and in February 2023 it published my seventh, The Oratory of All Souls. Over the years, I have been fortunate to receive awards or residencies from The Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, and Willapa Bay AiR. From 1986-2014, I directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato, where I continued to teach in the creative writing program until retiring in May 2021.