She serves on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society and has recently had poems published in such anthologies as 27 Views of Durham and Jacar Press’s What Matters. She was a finalist in the Independent Weekly’s 2013 poetry contest, and one of her poems was chosen as a finalist in this year’s James Applewhite Prize for the North Carolina Literary Review. Her poems have been published in such journals the Southwest Review, South Carolina Review, Chautauqua Literary Review, and others.