Born in Chicago, IL, 1949. BS, Florida International University, MA (Literature) Florida Atlantic University, Ph.D. Florida International University. Over 200 poems in various journals and Anthologies including, Tigertail, A Florida Anthology, and Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual, Florida in Poetry (Pineapple Press) and Having a Wonderful Time (Simon & Schuster). Poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Appalachee Review, The Mississippi Review, The Georgetown Review, Kalliope, Calyx,The Comstock Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Florida Review, Red Light/Blue Light, Visions International, The Mac Guffin, The Birmingham Review, The Chatahoochee Review and others. Four chapbooks: Lovers Never Die (1981); Prelude to a Woman (1986); Lunar Equations (1993) and Greatest Hits: 1980-2000; and a full length manuscript, Singing in the Key of L (1999) which won the 1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award. A new collection of poetry, Geometry of Dreams, is forthcoming in 2009 withWord Tech Communications. I have recently completed my first work of prose, a memoir entitled, My Year of Ex-Husbands and Other Strangers.