I studied art at Bard before figuring out I was better at writing, but before becoming a poet and teacher, I worked as a beekeeper at UMass, a house-builder on a woman's carpentry crew, and a cow-milker at various local farms. My husband and I moved to the woods of New Hampshire with our baby in 1980. We lived in the dark; our house had no electricity and no alternative energy sources. We had chickens and goats and horses and a series of dogs and cats. (We still live in the same house but have solar power now.) I became more serious about writing. I went back to school and got my MFA at Umass. I taught at the Community of Vermont, Keene State College, and then Landmark College for a number of years. I am the author of RAINY DAYS ON THE FARM (Fence Books, 2019) and A BOOT'S A BOOT (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014). Now I lead a pretty quiet life. I do a lot of reading and gardening and bushwhacking and contemplating (these days about compassion, about art, about death, about the state of the earth). Dan and I are doing some adventuring with Jack, our camper bus.