Education
She graduated from New York University.
She graduated from New York University.
Her honors include Yaddo and MacDowell Colony fellowships. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, American Voice, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cyphers, Florida Review, Heliotrope, Lumina, Negative Capability, Poetry Ireland Review, Salamander, Salt Hill Journal, and Saint Ann"s Review. She is the daughter of Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, New New York
She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and was on the faculty of the Poets" House, Donegal.
She divides her time between New York City, and Achill Island, Ireland. 2007 National Poetry Series The house in House Held Together by Winds is both mansion and metaphor.
Our docent for each construction is a little girl in a lace collar whose satirical observations of her dominating relatives expose the fears at the root of chauvinism..Readers who allow themselves to be voyeuristically fascinated by the gothic eccentricities of these poems will be moved by the transformation.