 She began writing poetry and, at the same time, began translating Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.In the 1980s she moved to Salcombe, Devon, where she wrote books on local history.She founded the poetry publisher Overstep Books in 1992, and ran it until 2008.