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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation poet, creative writing professor, editor, writing program administrator
Location Akron, Ohio, United States
Introduction I live in glorious Akron, Ohio, where I edit Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. I am the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), as well as Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). With John Gallaher, I edited the volume of essays The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics. Look for my poems in recent and forthcoming issues of Barrelhouse, Bat City Review, Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, H_NGM_N, Forklift, Ohio, Redivider, and Pleiades. In my spare time, I like to photograph garbage.
Interests poetry, creative writing, teaching college English, nature and landscape, American midwest, rust belt poetics, owning as many cats as possible

Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?

They never do. And neither do we.