At one point in her teen or early adult years, Samter wrote a society column for the Fort Smith Southwest American entitled "The Lady Clerk.

By 1923, the magazine had published almost 100 of her stories, some under the pseudonyms Bruce Reid, Laura Kent Mason, Seumas Le Chat, Betting Calvert, and others.

Her only novel, Show Business, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926 and reprinted with nine short stories under the title "Chorus Girl" in a 1945 collection.

[10] June Sochen compares Winslow to Fannie Hurst, noting that they both wrote about the Jewish immigrant family experience in New York City as "outsiders observing a foreign and dying culture.

"[11] Other favorite tropes include "chorus girls, ruined families, fitful marriages, and the ups and downs of the middle class.

[7] Edna Ferber called Winslow "a new master of the short story" in a blurb that appears on the cover of The Sex Without Sentiment.