As poet/storyteller/performer (separately and in combination), she has appeared at such venues as Poets House, EMPAC at RPI (Wow & Flutter Festival), The West Kortright Centre, and The Tenement Museum. She has worked as poet-in-residence with college students, school children, prison inmates, and others for more than two decades. She is author of two poetry collections, and her work has been anthologized. She was a Norton Island Fellow in 2009 (31 minutes).