A poet and creative non-fiction writer whose bread and butter is teaching English as a Foreign Language. Currently an MFA Creative Writing Candidate at Boston University. As a non-traditional student (I'm 31), it's been a strange trip to temporarily leave the working world for the academic bubble.

My current work focuses on the interaction between Eastern and Western cultures (pushing against orientalism), linguistic gaps between languages, and in general the gaps between people. This is not as depressing as it might sound. The last two years I lived in Hanoi, Vietnam, hence the fascination, the struggle.

"Natural Language" and "How to Drink the Beer in Saigon" - Plan B Magazine, issue 5 (forthcoming in the April 2012, both in print and online)

"The Stretch of Paper, Like Linen" - PoetsArtists, issue 28, pg 52, Oct 2011 www.poetsandartists.com

"Banh Bao o Day" and "Phuong Vy" - Strange Roots: The Hanoi Writer's Collective Anthology, pgs 6 and 9, June 2011. *The title of this anthology is taken from a line of one of my poems. Going into its second printing May 2012.

"The War We Think Of" - Standing: Idaho Women Writers' Anthology, pg 21, 2004

"Love Poem for D.A. Powell" - Gumball Poetry, Fall/Winter 2003, no page number because the poems were individually sent out to special gumball poetry machines. Sadly defunct.