Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly,[1] The New Criterion, Hudson Review, and Pleiades, and other journals.
She works as a marketing writer[2] and an assistant professor of writing and English at Young Harris College.
[3] She lives in Young Harris, Georgia, with her husband, poet James Davis May, and their daughter.
[4][5] While she is best known for her poetry, she is also notable for her nonfiction writing, including short- and long-form prose pieces, concerning her beliefs about home, views on class, and poverty.
[6] In March 2019, Rathburn was named poet laureate of the state of Georgia, succeeding Judson Mitcham.