Ritchie is the author of eighteen books of poetry and fiction, including Issues of Immortality (2021), Navigational Hazards (2019), Harbingers (2017), Tiger Upstairs on Connecticut Avenue (2013), Cormorant Beyond the Compost (2011), and The Spirit of the Walrus (2005). Raking The Snow won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House competition in Poetry in 1982, and In Haste I Write You This Note won in Fiction in 2000. Ritchie served twice as President of Washington Writers Publishing House, founded another small literary press, Wineberry Press, and ran the Macomb Street Workshops out of her DC home. She also taught Poetry in the Schools, and workshops at Calvert Library in Prince Frederick, MD. Ritchie also published journalism and photojournalism, and translated poetry and nonfiction from Russian, French, Malay, and Indonesian into English.