 She has reviewed books for children both in the New York and LA "New York Times" Sunday Book Review.Her short stories have been published in "Cosmopolitan" and "Playgirl" and anthologized in two collections 

As a teacher, she won the Distinguished Teaching Award from the New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design.She has taught at UCLA, Miami Dade College, and lectured on children's literature around the country as well as well as presented at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for SCBWI.