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   A former newspaper and magazine columnist, Strowbridge is the author of Widdershins: Stories of a Fisherman’s Daughter, poetry collections Shadows of the Heart and Dancing on Ochre Sands, the tri-author of an essay and story collection Doors Held Ajar, featuring three Newfoundland women. A young adult novel Far from Home Dr. Grenfell’s Little Orphan, is going into its second printing. Her latest book is The Newfoundland Tongue which was published in the spring of 2008

She was included in No Choice but to trust, and Sing for the Inner Ear, the Sandburg-Livesay Award Anthologies of outstanding populists poets from around the world. Her work is also in Postcard and Bus Poetry and in Circle of Six: a collection featuring six Newfoundland poets. Her work is in the school series Land Sea & Time. Gage Educational Publishing included "Summer Job" in a Canadian textbook for Grade 12 entitled Passages 12 and in a CD. A poem "The Fisherman’s Wife" has been published seven times and was used as part of a play performed at The Arts and Culture Centre.