There are so many great writers, it's impossible to name them all, but I hope that in my poetry, readers can see glimpses of Anne Sexton, Anne Carson, Eavan Boland, and Richard Jackson.
In fiction, I would be pleased if readers can spot moments that remind them of Lorrie Moore and Ellen Gilchrist.
Favorite Books
This is always a dangerous question to ask a writer. My first graduate degree is specializing in 19th Century British literature, so that explains some of my answers: Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights for that era.
Other influential books--If On a Winter's Night, A Traveler by Italo Calvino, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore.
Poetry collections--Transformations by Anne Sexton and Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson.
Favorite Authors
Lorrie Moore, Italo Calvino, Anne Sexton, Anne Carson, Eavan Boland, and Richard Jackson.
