She is best known for her book Truffle Beds which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
[2] Truffle Beds, Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
[1] Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008.
[2] She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993[2] and was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1996.
[3] She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent and was appointed the poet-in-residence at The King's School, Canterbury in 2006.