Her book, Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, Monkfish Books, received an International Book Award for 2011, and has been translated into Indonesian. She teaches Sufism, has conducted poetry workshops, and has presented her own poetry and stories of the early women of Islam at conferences and Sufi gatherings for two decades. In 2009 she was invited to recite her poetry at the International Sufi Conference: The Sidi Chiker World Meetings of Tassawuf Affiliates in Marrakech, Morocco. Her Buddhist teacher is Tai Situ Rinpoche.