She is the author of Visits from the Seventh, Sono: cantos, and night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis.

She works as a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland; she has also taught poetry at Princeton University.

William Bolcom set “Chagrin” for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble in a song cycle entitled "The Hawthorn Tree”[5] (which also adapts poems by Louise Bogan, Willa Cather, Anne Carson, Stevie Smith and Elinor Wylie).

Miriama Young composed “Côte d’Azur” as "Inner Voices of Blue",[6] first for tenor and chamber ensemble and later resetting it for mezzo-soprano.

[7][8] She also worked as a research associate for the landmark film series on American poets, Voices & Visions,[9] which aired on PBS in 1988.