My work is my world, and vice versa. Strong connection to environmental concerns through the close observation of the natural. Philosophical/spiritual with a quiet and unconventional sense of humor. Biblical & scientific influences. I am an educator in the fullest sense of the term. Genre: hard to peg.

The Capable Heart (Foothills Publishing, 2012), Water-Rites (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2012), Small Things Rise & Go (Foothills Publishing, 2006), The Minor Fauna (Finishing Line Press, 2006), More Than Shelter (Spire Press, 2004)

Cadence of Hooves (Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008), Common Wealth (Penn State University Press, 2006), The South Atlantic Coast and Piedmont (Milkweed Editions, 2006), I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (University of Akron Press, 2002), Inside Grief (Wise Press, 2001), Essential Love (Grayson Books, 2000)

Bitter Oleander, Buckle &, California Quarterly, Chain, COE Review, Comstock Review, Diner, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment , Mad Poets Review, Natural Bridge, Ninth Letter, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Schuylkill Valley Journal