Awards and Nominations

• Pushcart Prize nomination for the short story “Pa and the Pigeon Man” 2011

• Anthony Award finalist for the short-short story “Homeless” 2011

• Derringer Award finalist for short story “Fish Story” 2012

• Mill Valley Literary ezine first place award for “Murder Interrupted Me” 2013

 • Linea Literary Magazine featured 150-word piece “Clay Horse Ashtray” 2024

• National League of Pen Women, First Place: Memoir: “Grandpa Hoeler and the Race Riots” 2016

Major Playwriting Awards and Accomplishments

• Commission: $3,000 by Kirk Gershburg, NYC, to write a children’s musical, Humpty Dumpty: Before and After the Fall. 2015

• Commission: Jack, the modern Egyptian God, Wepwawet, for SF Olympian VIII: Mediterranean Cruises. 2016

• The Gatekeeper — Swept awards at the 2012 Marin Fringe Playwright Contest; selected in 2016 as one of the top plays in the festival’s 25-year history.

• Hit List — Winner, Playwright Center of San Francisco Short Play, 2019

• A Clean Well-Lighted Park Bench — Featured in Sheherezade (correct festival spelling) 2015, winner of Best Short Play Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Till the End — Selected for a staged reading by the Dramatists Guild of San Francisco, 2015

• And So — part of Flush Ink Productions’ “She Speaks festival,” Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 2017