A member of the Women in Literary Arts (WILA) and Bathalan-ong Halad sa Dagang (Bathalad),[3] Hope writes both in Cebuano and in English.
Her poetry has been published in several collections: Paglaum (2000), Ang Tingog ni Maria (2001), Beads (2002) and Mga Dad-onon sa Biyahe (2004).
USC Press published two of her translated volumes, Reawakened Bliss (2011, with Haidee Palapar),[12] a collection of Gardeopatra Quijano's short fiction and Hunger in Nayawak and other stories (2012, with Trizer Mansueto),[13] a compilation of Lamberto Ceballos's prize-winning fiction.
Subsequently it was published by the University of the Philippines Press as Women's Common Destiny: Maternal Representations in the Serialized Cebuano Fiction of Hilda Montaire and Austregelina Espina-Moore (2009).
Her other scholarly works are Bridging Cultures: The Migrant Philippine Woman in the Works of Jessica Hagedorn, Fatima Lim-Wilson and Sophia Romero (2011),[17] Institutionalizing Motherhood (2011),[18] The Controlling Mother (2014)[19] and The Other(ed) Woman: Critical Essays (2014) published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.