Awards & Honors

    Awards and Residencies

    • Juror for Women of Appalachia:Women Speak, 2015/2016
    • Winner of a SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant, 2014
    • Women Making a Difference Award (Arts, Meigs County, Ohio), 2003
    • Selected as one of the Ohio writers invited to participate in the state’s bicentennial readings and celebrations, 2003
    • Winner of the Appalachian Poetry Competition (Now & Then Magazine and The Center for Appalachian Studies and Services), 2000
    • Writing Residency in Poetry, Vermont Studio Center, 1997
    • Judson Jerome Scholarship in Poetry (Writer’s Digest and Antioch Writer’s Workshop), 1994