Her poetry, short fiction, and other works have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and periodicals in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Her debut pamphlet, Yellow Things: A Family Operetta, was recognized as a finalist in Wax Nine's 1st Annual Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming publication from flipped eye publishing in London.

She is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she was nonfiction editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review. Of all the cafes in the world she has frequented, she is partial to Cafe Amrita on West 110th Street in Manhattan.