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

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

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