She has written cover stories and profiles for The New York Times, Newsday, and The Christian Science Monitor, often following her subjects for months. Her Jump Rope Girls multi-media project, documenting a group of women she first profiled for The Times when they were double-Dutch jumpers on a troubled Brooklyn block, has been presented at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is the author of two books of poetry, Dumb Show and El Abogado, and a chapbook, Satyr. At NYUSPS, her courses include Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media, Interviews and Profiles, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2013, she received the NYUSPS Teaching Excellence Award.