[4] She is also co-editor of Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (The Mercury Press, 2005), an anthology featuring over forty emerging poets.
[5] As an arts educator, rawlings has led creative writing workshops for Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), terminus1525.ca, Learning through the Arts, League of Canadian Poets, Ontario Arts Council's Artists in Education Program, the Toronto District School Board, Writers in Electronic Residence, the Toronto Public Library system, the State Library of Queensland (Australia), Menningarverkefnið Hlaðan (Vogar, Iceland), Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature (Reykjavík, Iceland),[6] and NTNU (Trondheim, Norway).
[11][2] In Autumn 2008, Belgian composer Sebastian Bradt created a choral score entitled X Our Rotten Beauties that uses text from Wide slumber for lepidopterists.
rawlings has collaborated with improvising musicians and dancers such as Joe Sorbara and Jonathon Wilcke; sound poets such as Jaap Blonk and Paul Dutton; and the Logos Foundation's invisible and robotic instruments.
[16] In 2008, Rawlings received the Chalmers Arts Fellowship;[17][18][19] this enabled them to spend 2009 and 2010 living and working in Belgium, Canada, and Iceland.
[24][25] From 2021-2023, Rawlings held a postdoctoral fellowship[26][27] at HM Queen Margrethe II's and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate and Society (ROCS), led by professor in Biological Oceanography Katherine Richardson Christensen.
In 2024, Jordan Scott published the children’s book Angela’s Glacier which was inspired by Rawlings’ relationship with Snæfellsjökull.