| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing |
| Location | Bath, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am an American poet resident in England since 2001. Previously I lived in Normal, Illinois (till age 19) and southern California (from age 19 to 32). In the UK, my poems have appeared in, among others, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, PN Review, The Rialto, Shearsman, Stand, and TLS, while in the US my poems have appeared in Court Green, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and many other journals. My first collection, The Tethers (Seren, 2009), won the London New Poetry Award, and in March 2010 the anthology I edited, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, was published by Shearsman Books. My second collection, Divining for Starters, came out with Shearsman in February 2011. I am a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for Bath Spa University, where I have taught since 2004. |
| Interests | Contemporary poetry, Victorian literature and culture, masks (collecting), travel, characterful pubs |
| Favorite Movies | In no particular order: All the President's Men, Downfall, The Secret in Their Eyes, Nine Queens, The Wild Bunch, In the Mood for Love, Whale Rider, Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Persuasion, Blue, Spirited Away.... |
| Favorite Music | R.E.M., Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, The Cocteau Twins, Laura Veirs, Kate Bush, Gillian Welch, Regina Spektor, Bats for Lashes, KT Tunstall |
| Favorite Books | Novels--As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle.... Poets--Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Peter Reading, Christopher Logue, Linda Gregg, Lyn Hejinian.... |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
Normal, Illinois--my hometown
