graduated from NYU with an MFA in Poetry. Her book, Lightening after the Echo, was published by Another New Calligraphy. She won honorable mention in the Vincent Chin Memorial Prize for her chapbook, Another Word for Dialogue. She recently published poems in the Bellevue Literary Review and Literary Mama, and has poems forthcoming in Hong Kong Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Crosswinds Poetry Journal. She is currently working on writing another manuscript of poems. She lives in Chicago with her husband, son, and daughter. She teaches at Near North Montessori School.