Dower is the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. She has published three collections of poetry with Red Hen Press, and her poems appear in several anthologies including "Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond,” Beyond Baroque Books, as well as journals including Rattle, Barrow Street, Ploughshares, Garrison Keillor’s, The Writer’s Almanac, and Poem-A-Day.