She has won numerous prizes for individual poems. She is the librettist for Upbringing, a forthcoming opera by Chinese-American composer Su Lian Tan, slated for performance by Meridian Arts Ensemble chamber orchestra. Her poetry is also significantly featured on a soon-to-be-released hip-hop CD, The Cornerstone. Her work has appeared in close to one hundred literary journals worldwide, and she is the founding editor of Vernacular, an international womenís poetry journal.