Career
In 1965, she began graduate study at Cornell University and after earning the doctorate in 1969, she was appointed to the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of German literature. In addition to books, she published numerous articles, in English and Latvian, in scholarly and intellectual periodicals. During the last decade of her life, she turned from academic prose to poetry.
Posthumously, her poems have been published by Ulysses House in four volumes: Inta"s poems I, II, and III, Alzheimer"s Poems, the Vanishing of a Mother.
The last volume is devoted to her mother who died of dementia.
