SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Complete scripts for the theatre published on line by Alexander Street Press in the North American Women’s Drama Project, a scholarly resource making available for academic study what the Press considers the most important work by women playwrights on this continent.

Readers’ Choice Award from The Prairie Schooner for four poems published in Winter, Issue, 2003.

Featured Poet in a number of periodicals and/or web pages including Poetry magazine, Verse Daily, Image, Midwest Quarterly, Wheaton, Christian Century, Cresset, Cortland Review, and Poet of the Month.

Poems in anniversary issues of Poetry, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner

Interview in Poet’s Market 2003.

Best Monologues, 1994 and Best Monologues, 1996 by Smith and Kraus.

Virginia Duvall Mann Award, Winner for “Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley”. Prize: A week with The Charlotte Repertory Theatre and inclusion in its Festival for New Plays, Charlotte, NC, l995
William P. and Arlene R. Lewis Playwriting Award. Winner for “Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley”, l994, and for “Inventing Montana”, l996. Performance at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Coladay Award. Winner for Stranger Than Fiction, a book of poems published by Quarterly Review of Literature, Princeton, New Jersey

Washington D.C. Theater Festival Competition. First Place Winner for “Stories From The National Enquirer," A Two Act Play selected from 600 scripts, l990. Play produced by Source Theatre, Washington, DC

Prairie Schooner/Strousse Award For Best Sequence of Poems, l988

Cleveland State University Poetry Center Award. Winner for Coming Into History, a book of poems. Published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1985.

NEA International Book Fair selected Fugitive Angels, my second book, for inclusion, l987

Associated Writing Programs Competition, Winner, l980. Also: Finalist, Yale Series Competition and Walt Whitman Competition, for Nailing Up The Home Sweet Home, a book of poems, 1980.

Henry Rago Award, Poetry Society of America, Winner for “Summer Song,” a poem, l977

Atlantic Monthly Competition, First Place Winner, Poetry and Fiction, l965. The only time anyone won first prize in both categories. Prize: Atlantic Monthly Fellowship to Bread Loaf School of English