She has won several awards for her poetry work, including the 1998 Premio Revista de Libros [es] and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and she is a professor at Finis Terrae University.
[1] She started writing several poetry collections - Con el terror del quilibrista (1988), Duras aguas del trópico (1992), Duro de roer (1992), and Guijarros (1994),[1] some on which were, according to Carmen Alemany Bay [es], part of a trend "questioning of the idea of a revolutionary nation" like Cuba amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
[1] She then resumed her career in poetry collections, publishing Babosas: dejando mi propio rastro in 1998 and Se adivina un país in 1999.
[6] Together with María Elena Hernandez Caballero [ru], she founded and became director of publishing house Las Dos Fridas.
[7] Additionally, she once had an anthology of modern Chilean poetry under her editorship, Cercados por las aguas.