[2] She has written novels and short stories for adults, children and teenagers, as well as creative non-fiction and poetry.
Her work has been included in anthologies and published in journals such as Landfall, Takahē, North and South and Headland.
[6][7][8] She runs workshops at literary festivals[9] and teaches creative writing in New Zealand, in Rosemont College, Philadelphia[10] and at the Highlights Foundation, Pennsylvania.
[17] In 2017 she was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship to work on a collection of creative non-fiction essays with a conservation theme.
[21] Creative Non-fiction A Way Home - building a new life and a strawbale house in Central Otago (Potton and Burton, 2016) Fishing from the Boat Ramp - A Guide to Creating (Steele Roberts, 2009) Also published as an e-book: A Guide to Creating Poetry parallel (Steele Roberts, 2014) Children’s novels Shreve's Promise (Scholastic, 2004) - winner of the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2003 What About Bo?