 She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from USC in May 2005, and she is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000.In addition to her seven books of poetry, she has published four novels, the most recent of which, "Channeling Mark Twain" (2007), is about a woman poet who teaches poetry at a women's detention facility, just as the author herself did and the perspectives she gains from the poetry her students write.Her work has appeared in "Antaeus", "Ploughshares", "Paris Review", and "The New Yorker."