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New Mexico with two dogs. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications
including Blue Collar Review, Carp, Carnal Garage, Central Avenue,
Conceptions Southwest, Desperado, Prosodia, the rag, Red Weather, Spout,
the Tongue, Vehicle, Vox Populi, the Weekly Alibi as well as The Harwood
Anthology and In Company: An Anthology of New Mexican Poets after 1960.
One of her short stories, "Holding Zeno's Suitcase in Kansas, Flowering," won
first place in the 7th edition of American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short
Stories by Emerging Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has
performed widely, from the Seattle Poetry Festival to the Taos Poetry Circus and
the Thomas McGrath Visiting Writers Series in Moorhead, Minnesota. She
frequently collaborates with visual artists and musicians. She was founding editor
of the rag and currently edits the broadside KE5TRA [Sound Literature]. Her
first book of poems, Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, one hundred
sonnets dedicated to Thomas Merton, was published by La Alameda Press in
2002. She premiered Caput Nili, her one woman show addressing violence,
March 31st, 2006 in Albuquerque. One of her short stories, French aka Dirt
Cabaret just came out as a chapbook with Destructible Heart Press. Her second
book of poems, Mortar & Pestle is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in
October of 2006. She is currently coordinating Tributaries, a tri-city art gallery
and preparing for the New Rivers Press Festival in Moorhead, Minnesota. She is
also returning to the University of New Mexico to get her MFA in poetics!