As a native to the
Boston area, she began writing poetry at a young age. Stevens was the founder and director of The Saltwinds Poets, based on
Cape Cod. In 2013, her book
Across the Hedge: Calling on Emily Dickinson (Encircle Publications, LLC) was published posthumously. Other works by Stevens include
Witches: The Voices of Three Women Accused (1997) and
The Original Trinity (1994). Her poetry has appeared in
Yankee Magazine,
The Christian Science Monitor,
Cape Women Online Magazine, Pedestal Magazine,
Muddy River Poetry Review,
Brevities,
The Aurorean,
Prairie Schooner,
Transnational Perspectives (Switzerland),
Psychopoetica, and
Doors Out of Dorset (England). Her poems and prose have also been included in a number of anthologies: ''Crossing Boundaries - An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport
, edited by Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden (1999), Heartbeat of New England: An Anthology of Contemporary Nature Poems
, edited by James Fowler, and World of Water, World of Sand'' by Cape Women Creating and Shank Painter Press. She was co-editor and layout designer of the cover art for the Cape Cod Community College Poetry Anthology,
Dancing On Water (2002), which included not only student/staff poems, but work from such poets as
Martin Espada and
Nikki Giovanni. She also designed, laid out and edited a chapbook for Cape Cod Community College’s “Festival of Cultural Diversity,”
Common Roots, Common Ground (2001), which also included work by students, staff, and noted poets. Stevens was editor and layout/production designer for an anthology titled,
Village Poets of Sandwich, numerous chapbooks for First Night, Chatham, and many more chapbooks. ==Death and legacy==