[close] Founding editor of Taiga Press. Electronic chapbooks available from Scantily Clad Press and Ungovernable Press; print chapbooks forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press and Wyrd Tree Press.

Comforts:

winter, traveling, obscure northern languages, Indiana, my husband's cooking, my mother's baking, a new pair of Adidas Gazelles, wartime stories, Cointreau, folk music, handmade books, farmhouses, Marlon Brando, the smell of cedar wood, vetiver fragrances on men, well-defined bicep muscles on curvy women, my dog, coffee, and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.

Anti-comforts:

summer, tabloids, scrawniness, city people who leave the city but still talk about how much better the city is, cigarette smoke, pork, mountainscape, cell phones and telephones, frozen pizza, irony-overkill, patchy facial hair, sugar-free sweets, bad male drivers, weak coffee, Mary Oliver, gas prices, the neglected elderly, and people who snore.

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