She has also lived in the landscapes or cityscapes of Iowa, Chicago, Connecticut, and Boston. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, and displayed at art exhibits, including the Disappearing Frogs project. During her time in the Center’s Inner Life of the Child in Nature program, her poem was selected to receive the 2016 Rash Award in Poetry, sponsored by Broad River Review and Gardner-Webb University. Her book of poems, The Narrative Possibilities of Coral, was chosen by former North Carolina Poet Laureate, Cathy Smith Bowers, for publication in 2017 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company.