She has published several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (judged by Ben Marcus), and most recently, Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project). Ruocco also works pseudonymously as Alessandra Shahbaz (Ghazal in the Moonlight, MidnightFlame) and Toni Jones (No Secrets in Spandex). Her stories have appeared in numerous journals including NOON, Conjunctions, The Black Warrior Review, Caketrain, and The Brooklyn Rail.