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