I’m the author of Love and the Eye, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Kore Press First Book Award, and the recipient of a Writer’s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. My second collection of poems, A Night in the Country, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the Changes Book Prize (formerly The Bergman Prize).

My poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, The Massachusetts Review, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, and elsewhere; they’ve been anthologized in Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife and the City (Milkweed Editions); Inspired Georgia (UGA Press); Why I Wrote This Poem (McFarland); and Ensnaring the Moment: On the intersection of poetry and photography (Saint Lucy Books).

I’m a graduate of Concord Academy, Barnard College, New York University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Presently I live in Georgia and teach at Georgia College and at Reinhardt University.

I come from two long lines of Arkansans, was born in Germany, and grew up in Washington, D.C.