Born and raised in Wausau, Wisconsin. University of Iowa Writers' Workshop grad. Teaches at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. Founding editor of Many Voices Press.

How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past (Grayson Books, 2013), WE (Main Street Rag, 2011), New Poets of the American West (Many Voices Press, 2010), Suddenly Out of a Long Sleep (Arctos Press, 2009), Suddenly Out of a Long Sleep (Arctos Press, 2008), Poems Across the Big Sky (Many Voices Press, 2007), Hope Against Hope (Utah State University Press, 1990), War on War (Utah State University Press, 1988)

Antioch Review, Connecticut Review, Cutbank, High Plains Literary Review, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Pacific Review, Poetry, Poetry Flash, Poetry Northwest, Wisconsin Academy Review