She taught English Literature for five years in international high schools in Turkey and Spain. She studied playwriting at Emerson College (Boston) and the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (NYC), and poetry at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature (Italy) and The Hugo House (Seattle). Her poetry has been published abroad and in many literary magazines in the U.S. In 2013, a collection of her poetry won Honorable Mention in Hot Street’s Emerging Writers Contest. In 2014, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Third Wednesday.