Preface by Chef Charlotte Turgeon. initiated the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program. She is a former Fellow of the Camargo Foundation and was a Dewitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She was granted a Barbara Deming Money for Women Award and was a winner of the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Poetry Prize. Her publications include , and . She publishes poetry, criticism, and poetry reviews. is a Professor in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her critical book, A Music of Grace, explores the vision of the sacred in contemporary American poetry, and her poetry collection, , won the Quarterly Review of Literature Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in , and other journals.