She is a former English teacher and Education Adviser to Penguin Books in the UK. She edited an anthology of pre-20th century poetry and published two children’s non-fiction books under the name Jenny Green, plus short stories and articles in UK magazines, where she also did a stint as an agony aunt (Brit-speak for a person like Dear Abby who offers answers to readers' problems). In the United States, her poems have been published in Gestalt Review, Horticulture, Pulse, and Naugatuck River Review.