She teaches creative writing, literature and mythology, as well as a travel seminar involving fieldwork among the Mayan peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula and Guatemala. She has presented nearly 100 public readings around the United States, in Canada, Mexico and Guatemala, and has served as poet-in-residence in public and tribal schools as well as at Grand Marais Art Colony in northern Minnesota and at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. She is also part of the staff of artists and writers at the Split Rock Arts program in Duluth, MN. Besides the awards and publications listed below, her work has been commissioned by the Great Lakes Inter-tribal Council, and has appeared in museum art exhibits as part of multimedia presentations of Native American creative expression.