Her work has impacted communities of multiple diversities and has responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, veterans and their families, survivors of trauma and those committed to artistic expression of advocacy for US Latin writing voices, and engagement with representations of the “fragile shores” in our lives, amongst others.
She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,[4] NEA/TCG, PEW Charitable Trust, and California Arts Council.
She has trained for four consecutive years with Maria Irene Fornes in INTAR Theatre's HPRL Lab.
Svich teaches creative writing and playwriting at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts.
[5] Svich was the co-organizer and curator of After Orlando, a collection of new 3–to-5 minute plays responding to the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub.