Ms. Pierce is a widely published poet who has performed on a variety of stages from Louisiana universities to California art galleries, Florida book centers to Arizona coffeehouses. She has enchanted audiences at such popular venues as the Maple Leaf, the Goldmine, DramaRama and the WRBH Writers' Forum in New Orleans, State of the Nation in Jackson, MS, Rhythm and Music Poetry Series in Berkeley, CA, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, CT, and Jump Start in San Antonio, TX.