Personal details? I was born in Boston, grew up in nearby Newton, moved to Pennsylvania to attend school, and... Somehow I never left. Instead, I acquired a family, and continue on pursuing the practice of poetry.
I'm the author of three books, Plums & Ashes (Northeastern University, 1994), which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, Especially Then (David Robert Books, 2005), and Primitive Mood (Truman State University, 2009), which recently won the T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press.