[1] She worked at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She has been a senior lecturer at Simmons University in Boston since 2009.
She has contributed reviews to The Horn Book Magazine.
[2][1] She received a Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor in 2016 for her picture book A Crow of His Own.
She has written about her experiences as a foster and adoptive parent.