• Lives in Austin, TX
  • With 2 children, 2 Corgis, 3 rabbits, 6 goats, 15 ducks, and 60 chickens
  • BA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
    Creative Writing/Rhetoric and Classics with an emphasis on mythology
  • Editor at the IBM company. Previously, I wrote over 100 software-related books for several Fortune 500 companies
  • Author: Next Services from Salt Lick Press/Lucky Heart Books underwritten by the Illinois Arts Council and individual poems published in literary journals
  • Past writer-in-residence for the Poets in the Schools program in both Illinois and Missouri