Many of her poems and stories were published in national magazines under the name Lillian Mayfield Roberts. "The best of these mountain poets is Lillian Mayfield Roberts," commented H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury in 1926. One of her poems, "Hill Hunger", was included in the anthology Modern American Lyrics (1924). Her short story "The Fly on the Window" won $1000 from the West Virginia Review.
