About
I live and write in Pleasant View, a small city in northern Utah that boasts a peach orchard, fields, old barns, cows, wandering deer, a couple of stoplights, terrific views of the Wasatch Mountains, and the best cinnamon rolls this side of anywhere. I garden and hike the trails here with my husband and our 3 sons and teach creative writing part-time at Weber State University. I also help run a local reading series called Railtown Readings, which features celebrated writers of northern Utah and the West. But most days I just aspire to be a good human.
My poetry has been published or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Missouri Review, Western Humanities Review, Terrain, On the Seawall, Ruminate, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Small Orange, South Dakota Review, and other journals and anthologies. My essays can be found in Best of the Net, Sou’wester, River Teeth, and Waccamaw.
Some of the awards my poetry has received include the Joy Harjo Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, the NORward Poetry Prize from New Ohio Review, and the Sherwin W. Howard Award from Weber: The Contemporary West. My chapbook, The Ache and the Wing, won the 2020 Sundress Chapbook Prize. My full-length collection, The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), was a finalist for the Hudson Prize.