Life

She was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay across from Lower Manhattan and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay...

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She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...

 in Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The City is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center , which is the world's largest active...

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From 1976, she worked as a nurse in New Jersey and New York City. After Sept. 11, 2001, she studyed the effects of trauma.

She was published in Forklift, Ohio, Mid American review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poets Against the War.

She currently works with people with HIV/AIDS at Partnership Health Center, Missoula, Montana

Missoula, Montana

Missoula is a city located in western Montana and is the county seat of Missoula County. The 2010 Census put the population of Missoula at 66,788 and the population of Missoula County at 109,299. Missoula is the principal city of the Missoula Metropolitan Area...

, where she lives.

Awards

• 1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
• awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America in 2001.
• 2004-2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
  Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
  The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work....
  
  

Works

• "Her Father Must Be a Skywriter", poets.org

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