1946 Hartford, Connecticut) is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.

She worked in health care for fifteen years, including a decade with Planned Parenthood.

She served as poet-in-residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Florida as part of the Language of Conservation Project for Poet's House.

She has had residencies at the Yaddo, Djeraasi Resident Artist's Program, The Mesa Refuge, The Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, The Hermitage Artists Retreat and the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest among others.

Her new nonfiction book "A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress" was published by Counterpoint Press in 2021.