Beginning in 1979, she worked as poet-in-residence for ten years, in schools, senior centers, correctional facilities and libraries in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
[2] In 1989, Anderson began teaching creative writing at Kent State University and was appointed coordinator of the Wick Poetry Program in 1992.
The Fund aims to assist talented writing students at the university with writing-related travel expenses.
[3] In 1971 she co-founded Trellis, a poetry journal, with Winston Fuller and Irene McKinney, and served as editor until 1981.
Her poems have been set to music four times by contemporary composers, including "The Dream Vegetables" in Dreams and Nocturnes: Chamber Music of Stephen Gryc,[9] "In Singing Weather" by Monica Houghton,[10] "Nightmare" by Anne LeBaron,[11] and "Related to the Sky" from "Sun Songs and Nocturnes" by John David Earnest, an a cappella piece for male chorus performed at Lincoln Center in 1992 by Chanticleer and the New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestra.