Accolades

Memory Book, Notable essay, Best American Essays, 2010

Memory Book, Third place, Linda Joy Myers Memoir Prize, Soul-Making Literary Competition, National League of American PEN Women, Nob Hill, SF Bay Area branch

Not Knowing a Man, Grand Prize in Literature, National League of American PEN Women, 2011 Maryland State Biennial

Not Knowing a Man, Second place, essay category, Brainerd Writers Alliance Annual Contest, Brainerd, MN, 2009

Not Knowing a Man, Third place, Starving Writer Quarterly Contest, Milwaukie, OR, 2009

Lives, Interrupted. Honorable mention, Southern Illinois Writers Guild Contest, John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL, 2010.

Halleluia, Honorable mention, adult essay, Larry Neal Writers’ Awards, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1998.