RELEASE DATE FOR FOUR FAIRY FRIENDS will be November 2019 in time for the holidays!
"Unbound" & "Honeysuckle Summers" won honorable mentions for Poetry Society of Texas 2019
"Daughter of the Wind" placed 2nd in Poets’ Roundtable of Arkansas Annual Contest & Two Rivers' Poetry Society, October 2019
Poetry Society of Indiana 2019/Honorable Mentions: "Honeysuckle Summers," "A Life Punctuated," & "Intentional Tourist"; October 2019
"Kindness" won an honorable mention in the Poetry Society of Tennessee's contest. October 2019
My poem "Echo" placed 3rd in the Missouri State Poetry Society competition. September 2019
THE RELEASE DATE FOR MY BOOK SOUL COOKIES WAS JUNE 11, 2019! OFFICIAL LAUNCH WAS JUNE 15!
My poem "Mary Ann's Sestina" placed 2nd in the Nancy Byrd Turner Memorial Award and will be published in PSV's anthology Poetry Virginia 2019. It's an honest and compassionate look at Mary Todd Lincoln. May/June 2019
"Lunacy" won the Ida Kotyuk Award for in this year's Illinois State Poetry Contest! December 2018
"Ode to Surviving" won the Editors' Choice award and was published in Time of Singing in December 2018.
"Colors of My Mother" won 2nd place in the Oregon Poetry Association's Poet's Choice Award 2018.
(One day, I'll try to update the previous awards and publications--maybe.)