She is the editor of the forthcoming Louisiana State University Press, Barataria Poetry Series (Spring 2014) and has been awarded the Louisiana Literature Prize for poetry in 2003,[4][5] the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for 2010,[6] the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2011 Award in Poetry[7] and has taught as an Artist in the Schools for a number of years.
Her third book, Why The House Was Made Of Gingerbread, was chosen as one of the top ten books of 2010 by Women's Voices for Change.[8]