I have a PhD in English and have taught at various colleges in the Northwest. I am happy to announce that my novel, The Secret Ranch, will be published by Histria Books. My short stories have been published in Descant, Red Rock Review, Mission at Tenth, Blue Moon Literary Review, Gray Sparrow Journal, Poetica Magazine, Poydras Review, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, JuxtaProse, The Literary Nest, Smoky Blue Literature and Art Magazine, Five on the Fifth, The Opiate, and The Manifest-Station. My stories were finalists in contests for Folio, Hidden Rivers Press, Homebound Publications, and Glimmer Train. My novel, Lily’s Home Front, was published in 2018. My essays on the author Thomas Hardy have been published in scholarly journals. I live in Portland, Oregon with my husband, Jeff, and have three grown sons.