works as a writer, editor, teacher, and scholar. She is executive editor for the Saint Paul Almanac and a contributing editor for Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (2015), The Way We See It: A Fresh Look at Vision Loss (2014), and Transforming a Rape Culture (2005). Her prose and poetry appear in various other publications, and she has earned several literary awards and grants, including a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and the Loft’s Creative Nonfiction Residency Award.