lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama, where she is  a professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.  Her work has appeared in various online and print publications including  Poetry Magazine, Poet Lore, The Offing, The Louisville Review,  and Blue Lake Review.  American Happiness (2016), her first collection, published by New South Books, won the Balcones Poetry Prize.  How to Survive the Apocalypse, her new collection, is available August 2022.