her poems are widely published in high school and college textbooks, among other venues. her work has twice been collected in the annual best american poetry anthology and has earned fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, the stegner fellowship program at stanford university, and the paisano fellowship of the texas institute of letters/university of texas at austin. her literary works have also been featured in numerous literary magazines, including southwest review, the progressive and parnassus: poetry in review. she has received several pushcart prize nominations, and received a special mention in pushcart prize ix: best of the small presses.