She is the author of three collections of poetry: Here Is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), play dead (2016), and allegiance (2012).
[1] Her work has appeared in various literary publications including McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Poetry, Meridian, Indiana Review, Callaloo, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
She was winner of the 2014 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest.
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
She is Professor of English at the University of Houston, where she serves as the Consulting Faculty Editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.