Saloy's poetry appears in a number of publications, including Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, The Southern Poetry Anthology and the Children's Folklore Review. Her book Red Beans & Ricely Yours won the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize in 2006. Saloy is known for writing about New Orleans Creole cultural experience. She has been awarded a number of honours, including the Mayor's Office Tricentennial Grant in 2018.[3][6][7][8]
Works
Red Beans & Ricely Yours: Poems (Truman State University Press, 2015)
Second Line Home, New Orleans Poems (Truman State University Press)
Black Creole Chronicles (University of New Orleans Press, 2023)