She works in detox and at various addiction clinics and sometimes does a stint at the county jail. She is married and has four grown children. Her poems have appeared in obscure and sometimes defunct literary journals. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference in Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Her collection of poems, “The Heroin Diaries,” is scheduled to come out later this year. She is a lapsed medievalist and a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society.