Her 1983 groundbreaking "Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire" was the first book by a Chinese American lesbian; her second "Breathless – Erotica" won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Collected in over 80 anthologies worldwide, she has written for magazines and newsweeklies. Midsummer Night’s Press and Sinister Wisdom will reprint "Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire" as a Sapphic Classic along with new poems, "Nice Chinese Girls Don't," in January 2019. Out since 1973, she was one of the original members of Unbound Feet, the first Asian American women’s performance group.