A writer also of mainstream poetry, articles, and short stories, she won the W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia and New Zealand in 2004 and 2005, the Vera Newsom Poetry Prize 2005 and the Society of Women Writers (NSW) Prize 2006. From 2000-2006 she was the producer and editor of the magazine, Yellow Moon, which enjoyed an international reputation and readership. In 2006, she founded Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, the first journal in Australia dedicated entirely to tanka. She was president of the Australian Haiku Society 2006-10, has presented a paper on haiku in Australia in Matsuyama, Japan and one on tanka in Australia in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009 she convened the four-day 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference in Terrigal, Australia.