She was acquisitions manager, then executive director of Small Press Distribution from 1977 to 1989, developing close associations with many Bay Area writers and publishers, including Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Johanna Drucker, Barrett Watten, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Laura Moriarty, and Tom Mandel.
In 1974, he published the one-shot poetry magazine Streets and Roads, where for the first time work by such poets as Barrett Watten, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, and Bob Perelman appeared alongside that of Alan Bernheimer, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, and Merrill Gilfillan.
In 2000 he revived the Adventures in Poetry imprint with Cris Mattison, publishing books by John Ashbery, John Godfrey, Kit Robinson, Alan Bernheimer, Jean Day, Carla Harryman, North, Coolidge, Kenward Elmslie, and others.
Drum kit | Robinson Crusoe | Edward G. Robinson | Jackie Robinson | Mary Robinson | Kit Carson | drum kit | Smokey Robinson | Tom Robinson | Tony Robinson | Sugar Ray Robinson | Software development kit | Earl Robinson | Kim Stanley Robinson | Robinson Jeffers | Robinson | Kit Bond | Joan Robinson | Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead | Ged Robinson | Constable & Robinson | Kit Chan | Expedition Robinson | Benjamin Lincoln Robinson | Paul Robinson | Nate Robinson | Gene Robinson | Bill Robinson | kit | Brooks Robinson |
He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz, and Alex Smith and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson.