FINALIST, WORDS CUBED, UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’S New Play Program for 2023, A Ferryman’s Daughter (renamed from More Things in Heaven and Earth)
SEMI-FINALIST, THE BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 2020, Watermarked, A Three-Act Play (135 semi-finalists from 735 submissions)
SECOND PLACE FOR MEMOIR IN POETRY OR PROSE for “Watermarked,” Memoir 2013 (1000-3000 submissions)
THE CAROLE ELZER POETRY AWARD for “The Truant Officer Recalls Sweet Maggie,” a dramatic monologue
FIRST PLACE, LULA GREENE RICHARDS PERSONAL ESSAY CONTEST for “A Journey to Enjoy”
FINALIST, THINK TANK THEATRE’S 2022 TYA Playwrights Festival, More Things in Heaven and Earth
SECOND PLACE, EUGENE ENGLAND MEMORIAL PERSONAL ESSAY CONTEST, for “Singing in Harmony, Stitching in Time”
FIRST PLACE, ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS COLLEGE PRIZE for a collection of poems
THE MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK POETRY AWARD for “Snowfall on Glenflesk,” a villanelle
FIRST PLACE, MORMON ARTS POETRY CONTEST for a collection of poems
FIRST PLACE, MAYHEW POETRY CONTEST for a collection of poems