She was the author of Beneath My Heart,[1] Earthquake Weather[1] and co-editor with Dean Rader of Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry.

In 2012 Gould completed a residency for Indigenous Writers at the School for Advanced Researchin Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[4] Gould's work contains themes of “love, loneliness, longing for connection, family, history, place, and music”.

[8] She uses the term "Indigenous Assemblage" to categorize race, sex, and gender, as Gould was mixed-blood and identified as a lesbian.

[9] According to Shanna Lewis, Gould's The Force of Gratitude features the resurgence of traditional Indigenous identity to explain that her father was Two Spirited.