She was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship.
[1] Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The novella "A Crowd of Bone" published in Trampoline: an anthology won the 2004 World Fantasy Awards.
[8] Her work has also been published in Salon Fantastique, The Faces of Fantasy, and Mythic Delirium.
Her chapter on "The Languages of the Fantastic" appears in the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature.