She earned a BFA in Visual Communication from Northern Illinois University and holds an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, where she is currently an adjunct faculty member. Plumb has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo shows at the Union League Club and the Historic Water Tower Gallery in Chicago, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami, and van Straaton Gallery in Denver. Plumb’s work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Southeast Museum of Photography, among others. Her images have also has been featured in Ireland’s Blow Photo Magazine, Photo District News, and on TIME’s LightBox and The New York Times LENS Blog. Radius Books published Plumb’s first monograph, Animals Are Outside Today, in 2011.