once in new york she started working for the publisher b. w. huebsch and in 1921 she co-founded the journal "the measure" along with fellow writer and friend maxwell anderson. in the same year she married poet and novelist robert wolf with whom she had her only child marcia wolf (later liles). upon living in new york for most of the 1920s she assumed a teaching position at mount holyoke college, where she taught from 1929 to 1930.