Writing and Publishing Awards:
- 55 Words guest story winner, May 2008 ("The VW and the Caddy")
- Second place, Jane's Stories Press Foundation Flash Fiction Award, 2008 ("This Heat")
- Best of the Web nomination, 2007 ("Suspended")
- Second place, Carolyn A. Clark Flash Fiction Prize/Soul-Making Literary Competition—Pen Women, 2005 ("Catalpa")
- Finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996)
- First place, The Ledge's 1995 fiction contest ("The Dark Sun")
- Florida Literary Foundation short story winner, 1993 ("Say Bridgitte, Please")
- Pushcart Prize nomination, 1992 ("Turtle Hunting")
- Best of Show, PacKAGING Women/Cell.ing Women 1991 poetry and art exhibit ("Will the Real Madonna Please Stand Up?") for both poem and photo
- First place, The Paper Bag's 1989 short-short fiction contest for best stories of the year
- Bookbuilders of Boston Scholarship, 1985
- Lou P. Bunce Creative Writing Award, 1985
- Second place, Loomings' 1984 literary contest ("Gray Afternoon")