Verburg is married to poet Jim Moore, who is frequently portrayed as reading the newspaper or napping in her photographs.
[1] While she was studying sociology at OWU, she realized as she was looking at Edward Weston's Daybooks and Robert Frank's photo book The Americans that photography can also be art.
[3] Between 1978 and 1981, Verburg led an Artist Support Program at Polaroid Corporation where she invited painters and photographers to experiment with the large format 20 x 24 and 40 x 80 cameras.
[4] In 1981 her career pivoted to teaching, when she accepted a visiting artist position at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
[7] Considering the evolution of her photography, Verburg notes that her practice "treat[s] photographs more and more like sculpture," considering the viewer's relationship to setting, scale and time.
[10] The focus of this project was to re-photograph sites that were previously shot by well known 19th-century photographers of the American West using the same vantage point, similar equipment and under comparable weather conditions.