Career
She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently. She is the author of Artémis, a collection of French poems, published in Belgium. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Ploughshares, The Washington Post, AGNI, Harvard Review, and have been widely anthologized.
Her translations include The Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck, co-translated with Kurt Brown (Oberlin College Press, 2006).
She grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers She taught poetry workshops in Colorado and co-directed the Aspen Writers" Conference from 1989 to 1992.
She is fluent in four languages, and has published poems in French and Flemish. She was a Breadloaf Fellow, was awarded the McEver Chair at Georgia Technical, taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College, at the College for Creative Studies at University College Santa Barbara, and is part of the founding faculty at the Solstice Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.
She is the widow of poet Kurt Brown and currently lives in Santa Barbara, California.
