RECOGNITION

Contests

• MOCKINGBIRD'S SONG. Seventh Place. Children's/Young Adult Fiction Category. Writer's Digest Competition, 2010.
  
• IS THIS INDIA? Second Place. Writing for Children. Willamette Writers Kay Snow Writing Contest, 2009.
  
• "Patience to Pose." Second Place. Children's Story. Foster City International Writing Contest, 2007.
• "Summer of the Junker." First Place. Juvenile/Young Adult Short. Pandhandle Professional Writers' Frontiers in Writing Contest, 2006.
• "Swaying to the Music." Honorable Mention. Children's Article. Byline Magazine, 2006.
• "Patience to Pose." Honorable Mention. Juvenile Short Story. Byline Magazine, 2005.
• "Creating Bibliophiles." Special Honorable Mention. Personal Essay. Byline Magazine, 2005.

Grants/Scholarships

• Recipient, Grant, Highlights Writers Workshop at Chautauqua, Highlights Foundation, 2009.
• Recipient, Barbara Karlin Grant, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, 2007.
  

Other

• Featured Author, Wee Ones, Jan. 2007.
• Mentioned by Dragonfly Spirit editor, Gisele LeBlanc, in an interview at WritingWorld.com, Nov. 2006.