is the author of Hurricane Walk , named one of the year's ten best poetry collections by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Farewell, My Lovelies, selected for special feature by the Academy of American Poets Book Club; and Cities of Flesh and the Dead, winner of the Alice Fay DiCastsagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress and the 7th annual Elixir Book publication prize. She is currently at work on Rain in our Door: Duets with Robert Johnson.