awards & honors

film

Nominee, PSA Category, International Vegan Film Festival, 2025 – “Please Don’t Eat Me”
Finalist, Animal Category, Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental, 2025 – “Please Don’t Eat Me”
Official Selection, Best Poetry Film, Poetry in Motion Film Festival, 2025 – “A Love Poem to Gloucester”
Winner, Outstanding Poetry Short, The Shawna Shea Film Festival, 2025 – “How to Love the Moon”
Nominee, Outstanding Poetry Short, The Shawna Shea Film Festival, 2025 – “Who Is Gloucester?”
Official Selection, Worldthreading Film Festival, Poetic Phonotheque, 2025 – “How to Love the Moon”
Grant recipient, $400 Short Film Grant, Creative County Initiative, Essex County Community Foundation, 2025
Grant recipient, $500 Short Film Grant, Demand Media Studios, Inc., 2011

books

Finalist, International Book Awards – Nonfiction Cross-Genre, 2025 – “A Decade in Gloucester: Reflections on History and Home”
Finalist, American Legacy Book Awards – Nonfiction Cross-Genre, 2025 – “A Decade in Gloucester: Reflections on History and Home”

poetry

Winner, Second Place, The Barbara Sykes Memorial Humorous Poem, Poetry Society of Michigan, 2024 – “The Spirit of the Stairs”
Honorable mention, Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Competition, 2024 – “Grandpa Doesn’t Smile Anymore”
Winner, Laureates’ Choice, Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, 2024 – “Sonnet for an Old Cat”
Finalist, Five Minute Lit, Fall Contest, 2023 – “When Dad is Mom”
Winner, Grand Prize, Richard Angilly Memorial Contest, Dancing Poetry, 2023 – “How to Love the Moon”
Winner, Laureates’ Choice, Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, 2023 – “How to Love the Moon”

other

Winner, Slogan Contest, Multiservice Eating Disorders Association (MEDA), 2010 – “Beauty is not a size.”