 In 1999, she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award

She has translated works by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran and numerous other Swedish poets as well as the American poet Philip Levine into Swedish.She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2007 and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship in 2010.She is a Research Associate at the School For Advanced Research on the Human Experience in Santa Fe, New Mexico.