Awards/Recognition
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Muse Prize Contest: Spring 2026, Honorable Mention for Love is a Many Gendered Thing
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets 2025 DYAD Contest, Honorable Mention for Meditation in Time
Hal Prize 2022, 1st Place for Poetry: “Cicadas Can Reach 100 Decibels” (Peninsula Pulse/Write On Door County/Peninsula Art School)
Gold Medal - Military Writers Society of America - “Combat and Campus: Writing Through War”
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Triad Contest 2022, Theme: Primary Colors
2nd PLace for her poem “Ekphrastic Blue”
Wisconsin Fellowhsip of Poets, Triad Contest 2021, Theme:“Forgiveness”
2nd Place for her poem, “I ask Again.”
The Mill, A place for Writers (Appleton, WI) 2020 Poetry contest
Finalist/2nd Place for On Behalf of a Grateful Nation (video)
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP)
WFOP Fall 2001 Triad Contest, Humor category, 3rd place for Cast Out the Line as Though Ya Been to Church
WFOP Muse Contest 2016, Honorable Mention for Lost Seed
Wisconsin Academy/ Wisconsin People & Ideas
Wisconsin Academy Review Poetry Contest 2001, Honorable Mention for In the Bloom of the Moment”
Wisconsin People and Ideas Poetry contest, 2016 Honorable Mention for The First Time I Enter a Ladies Restroom with my Daughter
Door County
Hal Gruetamacher Poetry Contest 2013, Peninsula Pulse, Honorable Mention for Heirloom Quilt
Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press, 2017 nomination for Pushcart Prize and Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize for chapbook, Becoming Trans-Parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition.