About

Poeting

• Winner of the 2019 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for "Stick Figure with Skirt"

• Author of Sister Satellite and six chapbooks of poetry, including "Split Personality" in collaboration with Karla Huston

• 300+ published poems, essays and book reviews

• Winner of  the Mill Prize for Poetry, the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize, the WI Academy Poetry Award (Wisconsin People & Ideas) and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, among others

• Fixture (in concrete) in Waupaca and Appleton's city sidewalks 

Advocating

• Recipient of the Christopher Latham Sholes Award for mentoring

• Poetry Unlocked Event Coordinator and PR maven 

• Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) President, founder of the Chapbook Prize

• Founder of the WI Poet Laureate Commission and the WI Poet Laureate Fund

• Two-time former Chair of the WI Poet Laureate Commission

Speaking, Teaching​

• Keynote speaker at multiple events, including the Great Lakes Writers Festival, the Women’s Fund of the Fox Valley Annual Luncheon, the U.S. Venture Open, and the UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival

• Panelist and presenter at numerous venues including the WI Book Festival, Chippewa Valley Book Fest, Carroll University, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival, Marian University, Ripon College, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Marathon and UW-Whitewater

• A license to officiate!