In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her latest book, The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher and Wattmann 2014), won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Other works include Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems (Salt 2002), which won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her book, Broken/Open (Salt 2005), was short-listed for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and is included in CAL’s Reading Australia list of titles.