Education

PhD, English, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y.
MA, English, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y.
BA, English, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.

Research

• Literature of environmental justice
• Contemporary women’s poetry
• African American literature 

Publications

• “Lucille Clifton’s and Claudia Rankine’s Elegiac Poetics of Nature,” essay published in “Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era,” Routledge, 2020 
• Poems published in Adagio Verse Quarterly, Lit Candles: Feminist Mentoring and the Text, The Metro Times, Pittsburgh’s City Paper, Broad River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Walloon Writers Review and The Fourth River.  
• Translations of Korean poetry with co-translator Chae-pyong Song in Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, The Gwangju News, Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writers, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Sirena: Poetry, Art, Criticism and The Korea Times. 

Awards & Recognition

• 40th Modern Korean Literature Award in Poetry Translation, shared with co-translator Chae-Pyong Song, The Korean Times, 2009