Poetry Awards

First Prize in Artella's Poetry Contest for "After Reading Einstein's Theory "

Top Prizes in six different issues of Artella Magazine

First runner-up in  D-N Publishing National Chapbook Contest for "Drawing Outside The Lines"

Honorable Mention for Poets Corner Chapbook Contest.

First Place in the National Arts Club Haiku Contest, judged by Alice Quinn, New Yorker Magazine:

                                   Rain drums in my heart
                             Why did you leave me like that
                                   Without a warning.

 Runner-up in Georgetown Review’s Contest:: Writing on Vocation