[3] Her second collection The Glimmering Room was published by Four Way Books[4] and launched at the contemporary art gallery Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden; it was also reviewed by The New York Times alongside the poet C. K.
[17] She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including BOMB Magazine,'The New Yorker[18] AGNI,[19] The American Poetry Review,[20] Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica and The Paris Review, and in anthologies including Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets (Wave Books, 2004), and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, edited by poet Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004).
She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Followship from Princeton University.
A second collection of cultural criticism, The Melancholia of Class, was published by Repeater Books in 2021.
[23] Cruz is editor, with the visual artist, Steven Page, of the interdisciplinary journal, Schlag Magazine.