Readings, Awards & Honors

Women of Appalachia: Women Speak Readings

  • Bowen House, Logan, Ohio, May 11, 2019
  • Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea, Kentucky, April 13, 2019
  • Baker Theater, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 10th Anniversary Gala, March 23, 2019
  • Pump House Center for the Arts, Chillicothe, Ohio, May 3, 2018
  • Bowen House, Logan, Ohio March 16, 2018
  • Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV December 10, 2017
  • West Virginia University, Downtown Campus Library, Milano Reading Room September 30, 2017
  • Multicultural Center, Baker Center, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, April 22, 2016
  • Sips Coffee House, Mount Vernon, OH, December, 2015
  • Arts/West, Athens, OH, October 2015
  • Multicultural Center, Baker Center, Athens, OH, November 2013
  • Arts/West, Athens, OH, November 2011
  • Baker Center Theater, Athens, OH, May 2011
  • Multi-Cultural Center, Baker Center, Athens, OH, March 2010

Other Readings

  • Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility, Ohio University Southern, April 25,2019
  • Rise Up Appalachia: Voices from Southeast Ohio, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio April 8, 2018
  • Riverbend Arts Council, Middleport, Ohio April 25, 2016
  • Quarried: Three Decades of Pine Mountain Sand& Gravel, Paul Lawrence Dunbar House, November 2015
  • Every River on Earth:Writing from Appalachian Ohio, Dayton Public Library, April 2015
  • Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, April 2015 

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