Her poems have appeared in Rattle, The Report (0-dark-thirty), The GLR Worldwide, Crazyhorse, The Southeast Review, and the GSU Review.From Georgia State University, Wurz received her Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) in 2007. In 1998, she completed her M.F.A. in English (Creative Writing) at New York University. Her BA in English (1995) is from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.For Five Points and Crazyhorse, she worked as an Assistant Poetry Editor. In 1995, Poetry and the Modern Poetry Association selected Wurz to participate in the Ruth Lily Poetry Convocation at Indiana University. Currently, the Wurz family resides in Brunswick, GA.