Her essays and poetry have appeared in Literary Imagination, Sixty-Six, Harvard Review, and other publications. With Rosanna Warren, she has been the editor of two anthologies of prison poetry writing, Springshine and From This Distance (B.U. Press, 1997 and 1998). In 2005, Routledge published her book-length study, A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.