Chibbaro has written for The Prague Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hudson Valley Magazine, NY States of Mind, Books of Canada, Sundance TV, and Tuttle Publishing.

At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie.

Chibbaro's books include Into the Dangerous World (2015), a novel about a girl artist on the NY streets in 1984, Deadly (2011) a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary in 1906, and Redemption (2004) a historical novel about a girl's unintended trip to the New World in 1524.

Into the Dangerous World and Deadly are both illustrated by her husband, JM Superville Sovak.

Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list.