Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
She is the author of two poetry collections, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth, as well as a children's novel, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and an Master of Arts from San Francisco State University. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and American Life in Poetry and has appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine and The Sun.
She has taught writing at Cabrillo College and at conferences and currently teaches private poetry workshops.
Among her honors are fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. The Place That Inhabits Us,Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010
Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, Elizabeth Penfield, Longman, 2006
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Norton, 2001
Stories From Where We Live: The California Coast, Sara Saint Antoine, Milkweed,2001
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson, Ballantine, 1998.
2015 Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver Medal in Poetry 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize 2011 Poetry International Prize 2010 Mom’s Choice (Gold) Award 2010 NAPPA Award 2009 Skipping Stones Magazine Award 1996 Paumanok Poetry Award 1992 Marin Arts Council Grant for Poetry 1990 Sierra Magazine Nature Writing Award 1985 Gordon Barber Award, Poetry Society of America 1984 & 1980 John Masefield Award, Poetry Society of America 1974 Academy of American Poets Award.
