She is a creative writing professor at the Virginia Polytechnic University at Blacksburg, Virginia. (July 2007)
Friends with Rosa Parks.
An honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series,
Vol. 130, pp. 161-171. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
On April 17, 2007, delivered a profoundly moving poem entitled "We are
Virginia Tech" at the Convocation ceremony commemorating the massacre
on the Virginia Tech campus just one day earlier.