Awards

2023. High Country Writers Book of the Year Award [for a book published in 2022]

Voyage: Vista and Verse

2022. High Country Writers Book of the Year Award [for a book published in 2021]

Family Treasons

2021. Pushcart Prize Nomination (for Poetry)

ancient he-tortoise

ambles towards the she-shell

chasing extinction

Cold Moon Journal Pushcart Prize Nominations by Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson

2021. High Country Writers Juanita Tobin Poetry Award

For prolific poetry publication in 2021 - 61 poems/haiku

2021. High Country Writers Wordsmith Award.

For EXEMPLARY WRITING in POETRY. "Execution", "Regret", "Phantom Xoanon", and "Geometry"

2021. High Country Writers Book of the Year Award [for a book published in 2020]

Almanac: The Four Seasons

2010. 62nd Annual Philadelphia Writers' Conference Writing Award

Category: Words on the Wall, Poetry. Award; Honorable Mention. "Parallels"

2006. 58th Annual Philadelphia Writers' Conference Writing Award

Category: Poetry I. Award: Honorable Mention. "Jamaican Cradle Song"

2006. 47th Annual Contest National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc.

Category #37: Save Our Earth. Award: 3rd Honorable Mention. "Elegy for Eden"

2006. Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Inc.

Category #18: Selina Cox Esheleman Light Verse [Rhymed & Metered]. Award: 2nd Citation of Merit. "Dog Walks"

2006. Ohio Poetry Day Association

Category: Just for the Fun of It. Award: Honorable Mention. "Dog Walks"

2006. 75th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition

Category: Non-Rhyming Poem. Award: Honorable Mention. "Gender Play"