Once a bassoonist in the former National Orchestra, she also worked as a community journalist, a bandswoman in the Soweto Police Band, and a media officer and speechwriter for the Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS, Gauteng. She received first prize for poetry in the POWA Women's Writing Competition 2005 and the Inglis House Poetry Contest 2003. Her poetry was performed at the Art of Survival exhibition of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Women's Art Group. She is the Focus Poet for Timbila 2005 and The Hiss Quarterly's Summer 2005 edition online: http://hissquarterly.thehiss.net/ef/poetry.html.