For many years a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland, she has recently also taught poetry at Princeton. Her poems are widely published, in such journals as The New Yorker, The New Republic, Literary Imagination, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review and Poetry Kanto and in many online reviews. Composers have set her poems to music: Miriama Young set “Cote d’Azur” as “Inner Voices of Blue,” Steve Burke set “Armor” for the song cycle “Skin”; and William Bolcom set “Chagrin” for the song cycle “The Hawthorn Tree.”