Between 2004 and 2011/12, she and her husband, with their four sons, ran a 100-acre mixed organic farm near Totnes breeding pedigree Red Devon cows and Wiltshire Horn sheep.
She was included in Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology, edited by David Constantine and Bernard O'Donoghue, published by Carcanet Press.
[6] She was included in the Forward Book of Poetry 2011 as a "glittering debutant",[7] and her second collection, Red Devon, was published by Seren in June 2013.
[8] In August 2016, Hilary, Andy and, their youngest son, Inigo moved to France to renovate a fifteenth century Templar lodge in the Tarn and develop their web design company, Magic Bean.
Jonathan Edwards called Human Tissue's central theme a "powerful tale of a son’s kidney transplant".