Biography

I’m a midwesterner, raised in Evanston, Illinois, attended Williams College in Massachusetts and did graduate work at Exeter College, Oxford, under tutor Jonathan Wordsworth, descendent of the poet. Subsequently pursued checkered career of eaching/freelance/writing/advertising/editorial. I began fiber art in the early 1970s, and my work with colors of thread prompted a return to writing poetry in the early 1990s. Interweave Press of Loveland published my first collection, The Very Stuff, each of whose poems is inspired by a shade of embroidery floss. That collection received the 1997 poetry award from the Colorado Center for the Book. It has also sold over seven thousand copies, something, I am told, of a record for poetry. After the publication of this book I moved to Loveland to work for Interweave as a copy editor. My fiber art has been shown around the world, and it figures in many collections. So you can say that the fibers changed my life, and I’ve been following the thread of art and poetry since 1996.