Awards

• National Dow Jones Newspaper Group Award, three time nominee, Dow Jones News Group
• Northwestern Michigan College (Teacher of the Year, nominee)
• Grand Traverse Quota Club, Woman of the Year, 1995
• 1st prize in many literary (judged blind) writing competitions
• Profiled: The Quill, a quarterly, l995; The Lutheran, l997; Record-Eagle, several Michigan periodicals and newspapers.
• San Francisco Writer’s Conference – 2006, Second place- Poetry
• Runner-Up prize, SFWC (above)
• National first prize (shared) Most Useful Article, raising moral children (The LUTHERAN)