highlights and recognition...
2019: Currently featured in The RavensPerch: "Just Below Us" and "The Contestant"
2019: Poetry currently featured in Steam Ticket.
2019: Currently featured in Green Silk Journal: "Kick the Cat"
2013: Editorial Contribution Selected: "starting out", Line Zero
2008: Top Ten Finalist, Step Left Publishing Co., Spanish Fork, UT, fiction entry, "Long Story Short"
2008: Selected for multi-year paid blogging assignment for personal essays documenting the parent's process of readying students for college financial responsibility, simpletuition.com
2002: International Association of Business Communicators Regional Top Ten Award, Written Word category
2002: Awarded one of 20 national John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowships to the premiere program of "The Fourth Estate and The Third Sector," University of Mississippi
2000-2002: Served as adjunct faculty at community college facilitating youth courses including Creative Writing Workshop, Poetry Invitational and Writing The College Essay
2001: Initiated and authored monthly column, "Giving and Getting," Eastern PA Business Journal
1996: PA Keystone Award for excellence in feature journalism for contributions to Quakertown Free Press
1994-2012: Freelance features published Freedom Bowl, Lehigh Valley Woman, Mature Visions Magazine, Lehigh Valley Living and various corporate publications
2019: Poetry currently featured in Steam Ticket.
2019: Currently featured in Green Silk Journal: "Kick the Cat"
2013: Editorial Contribution Selected: "starting out", Line Zero
2008: Top Ten Finalist, Step Left Publishing Co., Spanish Fork, UT, fiction entry, "Long Story Short"
2008: Selected for multi-year paid blogging assignment for personal essays documenting the parent's process of readying students for college financial responsibility, simpletuition.com
2002: International Association of Business Communicators Regional Top Ten Award, Written Word category
2002: Awarded one of 20 national John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowships to the premiere program of "The Fourth Estate and The Third Sector," University of Mississippi
2000-2002: Served as adjunct faculty at community college facilitating youth courses including Creative Writing Workshop, Poetry Invitational and Writing The College Essay
2001: Initiated and authored monthly column, "Giving and Getting," Eastern PA Business Journal
1996: PA Keystone Award for excellence in feature journalism for contributions to Quakertown Free Press
1994-2012: Freelance features published Freedom Bowl, Lehigh Valley Woman, Mature Visions Magazine, Lehigh Valley Living and various corporate publications