She wrote poetry and children's stories as Sheri S. Eberhart then took a break from writing. By the mid-1980s, she was publishing science fiction novels, including "The Revenants" (1984), and the books of the "True Game" series, including "King's Blood Four" (1983), "Necromancer Nine" (1983), and "Wizard's Eleven" (1984). Other related works followed, including her ecofeminist novels "The Gate to Women's Country" (1988) and "Grass" (1989), which was part of the Arbai Trilogy. Later novels in the 1990s and 2000s included "Beauty" (1991), which won a Locus Award; "Shadow's End" (1994), "The Family Tree" (1997), "Six Moon Dance" (1998), "Singer from the Sea" (1999), "The Visitor" (2002), "The Companions" (2003), and "The Margarets" (2007).