is the author of two poetry collections, Wild Greens (2002) and Passion Maps (2009). She teaches literature at Hellenic American University, and is on the adjuct faculty in the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is currently at work on a project that explores Ralph Waldo Emerson's cultural indluence on Sylvia Plath's poetry, the first part of this research, "Sylvia Plath's Emersonian I/Eye" was published in Women's Studies (Vol. 40: 7, 2011).