She published the short fiction collection
Trouble and Desire in 1996, which was a
Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award nominee in 1998.
Escaped Domestics, her first poetry collection, followed in 1998. The book was a
J. M. Abraham Poetry Award nominee, and won a
Canadian Jewish Book Award for poetry in 1999. In 1999, she published the young adult novel
Hoist Your Sails and Run. The book was a nominee for the
Ann Connor Brimer Award in 2001. In 2002, the Resource Centre for the Arts staged her theatrical play
A Mountain of Shoes, about a young
Holocaust survivor who settles in Newfoundland, and she published the novel ''Donovan's Station''. The novel was a
Commonwealth Writers Prize nominee for Canada and the Caribbean in 2003. In 2005, she published the poetry collection
Covenant of Salt, for which she received another J.M. Abraham Poetry Award nomination in 2006. Her 2009 novel
The Winterhouse won a Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction in 2010. She has also published the novels
Gone to the Ice (2003), and
Livyers World (2007) and the non-fiction books
Salt Fish and Shmattes: The History of the Jews in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1770 (2006), a history of the Jewish community in Newfoundland and Labrador, and
Life on the Mista Shipu: Dispatches from Labrador (2018). ==References==