I have a bachelors of art in English and Philosophy. I started writing poetry in 1991. My writing mostly revolves around the body. I want to capture…those incredible moments that make life so worth living…light coming through gray clouds in gorgeous rays or light penetrating glass and dancing on the walls or the first bulbous flowers popping through spring soil. Little miracles that we can't hold onto but make us smile—the moments of heightened sensation that are pure delight.

I am really fascinated by the idea of residue. My dictionary defines residue: what is left over or remains; a remainder; the rest. With synonyms: remainder, leftovers, remains, rest, surplus, excess, dregs, residuum. It rings of “otherness”. It is this residual trace that we hold onto from our experiences. We cannot re-experience except through the residue of our experience. We cherish the remains of our favorite activities: a ticket from a performance, a lover's clothing, a love letter of love long past. A memory, a photograph. I am most interested specifically in the residue from an erotic or emotional charged experience.

Residue is both a loss and a presence simultaneously. Experience is transient, while residue is permanent. I want my poems to touch on this, to give off both wonder and disgust at residue. More than that, written words are the residue of spoken language, language made more permanent. It loses something in the translation onto paper but it gains something too. I want to delve into that very act of transformation and elucidate it in poems.

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." Anais Nin