 She moved to Alice Springs in 1985 to the region to work as a remote-area nurse and health educator but has since taught creative writing at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education.She has also worked at NPY Women's Council as an education researcher.Shilton's poetry has been included in a number of anthologies, journals and broadcast radio and in 2018, she published her first book "Walking with camels