2023 “Shine” Literary Mama — 2023 “The Greeter” Etched Oynx Magazine, Spring Edition — 2023 “Fat Cat” Honorable Mention, The Company’s Winter Writing Contest — 2023 “The Rites of Spring” published in the April issue of God’s Cruel Joke — 2023 “Elaine” Written Tales — 2023: "Fat Cat" Cool Beans Lit — 2023: "Frame by Frame" Written Tales — 2022 2nd Prize Winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, with a publication in Philadelphia Stories — 2021 Fiction writing grant from Lincoln City Fellowship/Speranza Foundation — 2020 Artist grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters — 2018 Fiction writing grant from Lincoln City Fellowship/Speranza Foundation — 2015 Publication of novel Café Antoinette, (Blue-Eyed Editions/Amazon) — 2010 Semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (Publishers Weekly review) — 2010 Semi-finalist in The Nimrod Literary Awards: Katherine Anne Porter Prize — 2010 Winner of the “Do It Write” Literary Competition — 1996 Short fiction published in the Doubleday Anthology “Angels of Darkness; Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women,” featured by the Literary Guild of America — 1990 Finalist in worldwide competition for the World’s Fair Omnimax film script (Discoveries Pavilion) Seville, Spain —