Colorado Book Awards Finalist, “My Sisters Made of Light”
Writing Awards (continued)
Ziggies Blues Club Poet of the Year, Denver, Colorado, 2016.
First Place (lyrical), “What Zero Looks Like,” Columbine Poetry Award, 2015.
Shane Marie Morrow Lectureship, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2013 (My Sisters Made of Light, novel)
Denver Press Club Poetry Award, 2012 (Letter to Muriel Rukeyser at the End of the Twentieth Century).
Finalist in Literary Fiction, Colorado Book Award, 2011 (novel, My Sisters Made of Light)
Winner of the Silver Solas Women's Best Travel Writing Award, 2009 (Meeting the Dalai Lama in Tibet, narrative nonfiction)
First Place, 3rd Place and Honorable Mention, The Colorado Lawyer Poetry Contest, 2006.
Clinical Legal Education Association Creative Writing Award (2nd place poetry), 2000.
Fellowship in Literature (poetry), Colorado Council on the Arts, 1997.
Thomas Hornsby Ferril Poetry Contest, third place, Denver Press Club, 1997.
Best Feminist Essay Award of Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1996.
Associate Award, Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, 1994 (poetry).
William Battrick Poetry Award, University of Colorado, 1994.
2015 Ziggies Poet of the Year
Works included in Anthologies/Collections:
Summer of Love, Exception/All Anthology, Writing Heights Writers Assn. (memoir), 2023
August Morning, Columbine at 45, 2023 (poetry), 2023
A Tour of Colfax Avenue circa 1974, New York Quarterly, 2022 (poetry)
Poems from the Back Forty (Columbine Poets of Colorado) 2018
Mycoepithalamia Anthology, 2016 (poetry)
Chokecherries Anthology, Society of the Muse in the Southwest SOMOS, 2012 (poetry).
The Colorado Lawyer Poetry Anthology, Sept., 2006, Vol. 35, No 9
Off the Record - An Anthology of Poetry by Lawyers, The Legal Studies Forum (Volume XXVIII, No. 1 & 2) 2004:
Disturbing the Peace: Writings by Colorado Attorneys, 2002, Denver Bar Association, 2001. (narrative nonfiction)
Beyond Portia: Women, Law and Literature In The United States, Northeastern Univ. Press, 1997 (poetry)
Tumblewords: Writers Reading the West, Univ. of Nevada Press, 1995. (poetry)
Thinking Women: Introduction to Women's Studies, Kendall-Hunt Publications, Wetzel, Espenlaub, Hogen, McElhiney and Williams, Eds., Nov. 1992. (poetry)
Legal Publications & Awards
“The Clinic as Laboratory: Lessons from the First Year of Conducting Social Research in an Interdisciplinary Domestic Violence Clinic,” (co-authored with Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel, M.S.) Loyola Law Review (2001).
“Building Bridges, Building Walls: Collaboration Between Lawyers and Social Workers in a Domestic Violence Clinic & Client Confidentiality,” Clinical Law Rev. (2001).
“Putting Theory Into Practice: A Battered Women’s Clemency Clinic,” (co-authored with Nancy Ehrenreich) Clinical Law Review (2001).
Consulting Author, New Directions from the Field: Victims’ Rights and Services for the 21st Century, U.S. Dept. of Justice Office for Victims of Crimes, 1998.
“Sex, Sense, and Sensibility: Trespassing into the Culture of Domestic Abuse,” Harvard Women's Law Journal (1997).
Editor, Colorado Domestic Violence Benchbook, Colorado State Judicial Dept., 1995; Updated 1997; 2010.
Project Safeguard Social Change Awards, 1994, 2003.
Contemplative Law Fellowship, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 2000.
Professionalism Award, Univ. of Denver. Law Stars, Alumni Award, 1997.
Judicial Excellence Award, Denver Bar Association, 1994.
YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, 1994
Mary Lathrop "Trailblazers" Award, Colorado Women's Bar Association, 1993.
Judicial Contribution Award, Colorado County Judges Association, 1993.
Awards
Writing Awards
First Place, Prose Poetry and Second Place, Free Verse, 2021 Columbine Poets of Colorado
Black Sheep Writing Award, Colorado Genealogical Society, 2019 (“Cough Drop Joe,” short fiction)
Semi-finalist, Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2017 (unpublished novel, Inside the Shawl of Midnight)
Selected as writer for Traveling Gourd tour of western Colorado (Telluride, Montrose, Fruita) 2016
Finalist, F(r)iction Spring Short Story Contest, 2016, (“Aisha’s Daughters”)
Second Place, Free Verse, Columbine Poets of Colorado, 2016 for “The Left Margin”
Other Awards and Honors and Activities
Poetry Editor, The Colorado Independent, 2018-2020.
ReadersLab performance, 2018-2019.
Featured in Cowboys, Yogis, and One-Legged Ski Bums: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Coloradans by Don Morreale, 2014.
Featured in “Exceptional Women of the Counterculture,” DVD, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2012.
More than 100 readings and discussions of My Sisters Made of Light, Colorado, New York, Wash, D.C., Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, 2010-present).
Panelist, Writers Buzz: The Story of a Book, Lighthouse Writers, Denver, Feb. 2011.
Participant, Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Retrospective, April, 2009.
Writer-in-Residence, Wildacres (North Carolina). 2006
Project Safeguard Social Change Awards, 1994, 2003.
Contemplative Law Fellowship, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 2000.
Panelist, Finding Time for Creativity, Rocky Mountain Women’s Inst. Conference, 2002.
Coordinator, Second Monday Poetry Series, The Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1997,
Lecturer, "Feminist Theory in Law and Literature," Univ. of Colo. Law School, 1996.
Panelist, “The Dark Side of Poetry,” Rocky Mountain Book Fair, 1996.
Panelist, “Urban Women Poets Writing the West,” Rocky Mountain Book Fair, 1995.
Presenter, "After Trespass: Using Literature to Teach Judges About Domestic Violence," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Spokane, Washington, October 1995.
Coordinator, Visiting Writers Series, University of Colorado, 1995, including writers: Ai, Pattiann Rogers, Mary Crow, Star Black, Steve Katz, Rudolf Anaya, and Jonathan Lethem, Boulder, CO.
Lecture, “Looking at Suffering: The Photography of Donna Ferrato,” Smokebrush Theater, Colorado Spring, 1993.
Professionalism Award, Univ. of Denver. Law Stars, Alumni Award, 1997.
Judicial Excellence Award, Denver Bar Association, 1994.
YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, 1994
Mary Lathrop "Trailblazers" Award, Colorado Women's Bar Association, 1993.
Judicial Contribution Award, Colorado County Judges Association, 1993.
