[3][8][9] She has cited Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda and Tomas Tranströmer among her formative influences, as well as Medbh McGuckian, Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney from a semester spent studying in Ireland when she was in college.
[3] In 2009 Larson collaborated with artist Heather Green on The Ghost Net Project at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center.
25 shadow boxes, each paired with a poem by Larson, were constructed from salvaged shrimp-boat wood and filled with flotsam and jetsam as a way of examining cultural and ecological relationships in the Gulf of California, where Larson had lived and worked for six months.
[2][13][14] The book was praised in The Independent for "an extraordinary wakefulness, an immersion in nuance that enriches experience",[14] while The Paris Review said: "The natural world has never felt more physical, more alive with tiny movements and infinite textures".
[1][3] In 2010, Larson was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.