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I grew up in Newark and Maplewood, New Jersey, a lover of
fairytales, writing on scraps of paper under the bedroom nightlight.
As an English major at Douglass College, I read the stream
of consciousness writers who would later also deeply inform
my work. Though my passion always was to write, I had a restlessness
and desire to see the world, and after college, I taught meditation,
traveling and living briefly in Majorca, Italy, Switzerland
and the French Alps. Returning to the East Coast and New York
City, I studied writing and in 1991 graduated with an M.F.A.
in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.
My first full-length collection is Bright Turquoise Umbrella (Tupelo Press, 2004), the autobiography of a young woman, told by the self of dreams. Bright Turquoise Umbrella was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2005 Norma Farber First Book Award (judged by Cole Swensen).
Other honors include being named a finalist for PSA’s 2004 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award (judged by Linda Gregg), the grand prize for the 1993 Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award (judged by Carolyn Forche) and a Pushcart Prize nomination. My poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary,
Barrow Street, How2, Drunken Boat, La Petite Zine, Kalliope, Luna, Poetry
New York, Sonora Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal,
Willow Springs and other publications. Since 2000 I have
been poetry editor of the literary journal 3rd
bed.
A faculty member of The Writers Voice from
1994—2001, I now
teach in New York University's McGhee Division and the New
York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center, Manhattan.
My honors include grants for residencies at
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Blue Mountain Center
and the Ragdale Foundation.
Interview
with ChicagoPostModernPoetry.com
Profile on MadPoetry.org
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