She would get a job at the magazine La Alborada under the pen name Joujou. Her poetry is considered passionate and specialized in female sexuality. Which at the time was considered a modern idea. Eros the God of love was a figure in many of her poems. There were many critics that focused on her being a woman (either good or bad) rather than on her works. Often using her gender as a way to call her pure or sexually obsessed.
She was a part of a group of Uruguayan writers. It was formed in 1900 she was in it with Julio Herrera y Reissig, María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Alberto Zum Felde, and Angel Falco. It allowed them to have an innovative voice in Spanish American poetry.
On August 14, 1913, Delmira married Enrique Job Reyes who wasn't a part of the literary world that she was. The marriage didn't even last a full year as on June 5, 1914, the two got divorced. On July 7, 1914, Enrique shot Delmira in the head twice and then took his own life in Montevideo.
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