She got her GED at 16, took college courses while working in her father's shop, spent a year as an au pair in Paris at age 18, and attended the University of California, San Diego.
Her time at the university is detailed in her memoir, The Middle Room.
She is working on an English translation of the poems and diaries of Quebecois poet Marie Uguay.
[2] Her poems have been included in two anthologies of contemporary American verse published by W. W. Norton & Company.
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