She has been an active poet since 2004 and has two books published by Foothills: Cadences (2009), which pulls work from her MFA thesis at Pacific University, and Golden Smoke (2015). Her work has also appeared in journals such as Nimrod, Grasslimbs, The Centrifugal Eye, Redactions, and The Song (newsletter of Christ Church where she sings in the choir and has composed liturgical poems).