Name of School

Messiah College

Subjects You Teach

Literature, Poetry, Writing

Academic Interests

American poets, Hopkins, Dostoevsky, international poetry in translation

Hobbies and Other Interests

Being outside, growing herbs, walking, jogging, yoga

How Long Have You Been a Teacher?

over 15 years

Favorite Authors

Hopkins, Dostoevsky, O'Connor, Bishop, Gluck, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Gadamer, Steiner, etc...

Tell us a bit about yourself--a brief bio

I've taught literature and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Messiah College, Gordon College’s Orvieto Program, through the Pennsylvania Arts Council to students of all ages, and at the local classical school where her husband was headmaster for a decade and where her children attended k-12. She consults with classical schools in curriculum development and faculty development in poetry. She is a two time recipient of the PA Arts Council Artists Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship. Her own work appears in various journals including The New England Review, Image, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, and Christianity and Literature, The Cresset. “The Art of Poetry” a text book for middle to high school students was published in 2009 by Classical Academic Press. She attended Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate and the University of Maryland for graduate school.