Ms. Herbert holds a degree in art and education from Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, and a master's degree (M.A.) in creative writing with an emphasis on poetry, from The City College of New York, where she received three scholarships and the Jane Specter Award for graduate creative writing.

Within the past five years her poems have been published in numerous literary journals and periodicals in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Australia, France, Finland, and Japan, and have been selected for five anthologies.

Ginninderra Press in Australia has published her first two collections of poems, "An Inventory of Fragile Knowledge" (1998), and "A Path Clearly Marked" (1999). She has been invited to read her poetry at numerous events, including the 1998 and 1999 New Jersey Book Fair and the 1998 Baltimore Book Festival.