She published poetry in Russian-language literary magazines such as Zerkalo, Znamya, Kriticheskaya massa, and Novoe Literaturnoe Obozreniye, as well as in anthologies like Babylon, Urbi, and Ulov.

Per Stepanova, The magazine "would provide the audience with modern, up-to-date, passionate view on what is going on in Russian culture and in the outer world.

"[3] She served as editor-in-chief of Openspace.ru until 2012, when she left the publication along with the majority of her editorial staff due to a withdrawal of funding from private investors.

[4] Stepanova's work has been translated into English, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, French and other languages.

She is considered to have repopularized the traditional ballad as a poetic genre, employing and subverting conventional prosody and form.