[7] Bloch published five collections of her poetry: The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing, Mrs. Dumpty, Blood Honey.
[9] Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and included in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize and other anthologies.
She translated works by modern Hebrew poets including The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai[8] with Stephen Mitchell, and Amichai's Open Closed Open, as well as Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch with Chana Kronfeld.
Chana's Story, a song cycle by David Del Tredici based on her work,[12] premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
She had two grown sons,[13] Benjamin and Jonathan, from her marriage to Ariel Bloch, a former professor of Semitic Linguistics at UC Berkeley.