Chicago Story Press, March 2026. “Coltrane and Grieving.” 

Travelers’ Tales, March 2025, Best Travel Writing, Solas Award,  Bronze, Travel and Healing Category. “Ljós - Illumination in Iceland.”

Writer’s Digest  93rd Annual Writing Contest, June 2024. Honorable Mention, Humor Category, “In A Pickle” (My epic fail at trying to learn the game of pickleball) 

Writer’s Digest 92nd Annual Writing Contest, June 2023. First prize, Memoir/Personal Essay category. “Details and Aftershocks.” 

Boston Book Festival, At Home Project, June 2020

The Tishman Review, April 2016.  “Hearing Voices” (Craft essay on the authenticity of the writer’s voice) 

Psychology Today, March 2015. “It’s Complicated: Ten Years After” 

 Living with Loss Magazine,  Spring 2013, “Moving with the Seasons of Grief” (The ebb and flow of long term grief)