I was born and raised in Chicago where I first fell in love with hot dogs, music, urban landscapes, windy days, and all things poetry. I work full time as a high school English teacher in the south suburbs of Chicago where I have been teaching for 12 years. I hold an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago and spend my free hanging out with my sons Caiden and Quinn, reading trashy magazines, traveling, obsessing over taking the perfect picture of or with my kids and watching soccer games with my husband.