A winner of the China Times Literature Award and Taipei Literature Award, Yeh spent a while after graduation working for the Public Television Service as an environmental reporter, but her workload as a reporter meant she had no time to write, and she decided to head into public service.
曾得過時報文學獎、台北文學獎的她，畢業後曾在公視跑過一陣子環保新聞，但因記者工作太忙，找不到時間寫作，才決定回到公務體系任職。