 She taught Creative Writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2008. and was a Vassar Writer-in-Residence in spring 2009.In spring 2010, she was the Visiting Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA Program of Creative Writing at Texas State University and became a Hodder fellow at Princeton University in Fall 2010.In the fall of 2013, Packer joined the faculty of San Francisco State University's Creative Writing department.