Wolfe published her work in Poetry, The New York Times, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and the anthologies QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, and Beauty is a Verb. She was the 2023 winner of the William Meredith Award for Poetry, a 2008 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow, a Puffin Foundation grant, and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, among other honors. Her books of poetry are: The Porpoise in the Pink Alcove (2023), Love and Kumquats (2019), The Uppity Blind Girl Poems (2015, winner of the Stonewall Chapbook competition), The Green Light (2013), and Helen Takes the Stage: the Helen Keller Poems (2008).
Wolfe was a regular contributor to the Washington Blade newspaper, and was a twice a finalist in the DC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists annual awards for her series “Queer, Crip and Here,” her profiles of disabled and queer leaders. Born in New Jersey, she earned a degree in divinity at Yale University, and moved to the DC area in 1991.