is Associate Professor of English at College of the Desert, where she teaches poetry, creative writing, desert and Native American literature.  She is founder and advisor for the COD literary/visual arts magazine, Solstice, and co-founder of Petroglyph Books. She’s published poetry in Pacific Review, Poemeleon, The Sun Runner Magazine, Genie, Mosaic, American Indian Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Dry Ground: Writing the Southwest, and Inlandia: A Literary Journey through Southern California's Inland Empire,  published by Heyday Books, Berkeley (2006.)

Wild Wash Road is a collection of poems so gritty in subject matter, emotional quality, and geography (think: female California Desert District firefighter, emerged from the consummate, misogynistic Catholic family, and on the lam from an an abusive, ex-Army-Ranger boyfriend, turns alternative high-school teacher and conceives what will be a much-beloved daughter out of wedlock while en route to the Ontario, CA topless bar, "Pinky," one Halloween night) that after you read it, you will be able to paint your whole apartment without even scuff sanding....