She draped her newborn like a sheaf of peonies across her lap, peeled back the blanket from the puffball face, then parted her robe, pinched her nipple and settled in her daughter there and something sweetly sexual rose between them—the pressure, the release—and she fell fully into love, holding nothing back as with a man, whose wounding begins as soon as he cries Baby and rolls over. Rooted in the landscape of the South, celebrating the private treasures to be found in the everyday world, her poems speak to us all of the joys and the losses of the seasons of our lives. grew up in the foothills of South Carolina. The author of two highly regarded volumes of poetry, and , she is a recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and -divides her time between South Carolina, where she is chair of the creative writing department of the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, and Monhegan Island, Maine, where she teaches poetry workshops and operates the island general store.