In 1916,[5] she entered and won a slogan contest sponsored by the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA), with "Ballots for Both",[6] which was used on pins in the last years of the American campaign.

[7][8] In 1917 she was mentioned among the prominent Philadelphia suffragists wearing foregoing new shoes as a wartime sacrifice.

[9] Hiestand-Moore co-edited Godey's Lady's Book in the 1880s, and wrote short fiction, including "Le Valet du Diable" (1881), in Potter's American Monthly; "Up in the Greenwood Tree" (1884), "A Parisian Idyl" (1884), "Solid for Whom?"

(1887), "Con Amore: A Nocturne in Gray" (1887), "The Shears of Atropos" (1887), "Allan's Masquerade" (1887), "When the Ship Comes In" (1888), and "The Wild Irishman" (1888), all in Godey's Lady's Book; "Fu Chow's Lottery",[10] "The Cigarettes of Ishmond",[11] "A Bargain in Ancestors",[12] "Miss Brown's Baggage",[13] and "A Proof of Title",[14] all published in The Pacific Monthly in 1904; and "An Episode in a Motor Car" (1906),[15] also in The Pacific Monthly.

Heistand-Moore was founder and editor of The Theosophic Voice, a Chicago-based journal representing a faction of American theosophy.