Awards and Recognition
Wyoming Writers: Traditional Poetry; Sagebrush Eulogy, 1st Place 2020
Women Writing the West Conference 2017
Writer’ Digest Poetry Contest, Fifth Place, 2014
Winner of the Emmie Mygatt Award, Wyoming Writers, Inc. 2014
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Wrangler Award for 2012
High Plains Book Award Finalists, 2012
WILLA Literary Awards for Poetry, given by Women Writing the West. 2012
2011 Neltje Blanchan Award for poetry, coordinated by the Wyoming Arts Council
2009 winner of the 17th Annual National Senior Poets Laureate Competition, sponsored by Amy Kitchner's Angels Without Wings Foundation.
Guest Poet at the Matthews Opera House feature, Stars Shine, 2008
Featured Poet at the 2007 Alzada Cowboy Poetry, Music and Art Show
WyoPoets, Wyoming Paintbrush, 2007
Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2006
WyoPoets National Contest: First Place and Honorable Mention, 2006
WYOPoets Chapbook, Wind Whispers Down Wyoming, 2005
WYOPoets National Contest, Honorable Mention, 2003
WYOPoets National Contest, Honorable Mention, 2002
WYOPoets Chapbook, Seasons of Wyoming, 2002
Literary Reviews, Magazines, Journal Publications, and Newspapers:
Owen Wister Review, University of Wyoming, 2007
Wyoming Rural Electric News Magazine: 1999, 1998, 1995, 1993, 1992
Farm Journal: 1993
Cow Country: 1995, 1992, 1991, 1990
Wyoming Livestock Roundup, Sundance Times, Moorcroft Leader, Billings Gazette
Presentations:
Presentation at the National Cowboy Poetry gathering 2017-2018
Presentation at the National Cowboy Poetry gathering 2016-2017
Featured Performer at the Wyoming Women's Ag Symposium 2016
Keynote speaker at Northwest Regional Conference of the DKG International Society of Women Educators 2014
Reading to the Wyoming Legislature 2013-2014
Reading at the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Awards, 2013
Workshop Presentation at Casper College ARTCORE Literary Conference, September, 2012
Worked with students in the Black Hills area 2013-14,15,16 and 17
Judgings:
Wyoming Poetry Out Loud Competition, March 2012, 2013
Wyoming Writers Poetry Contest, March 2012, 2013
Women Writing the West Best Poetry Book, 2013
High Plains Book Awards best Poetry Book, 2013
Wyoming Writers Traditional Poetry 2010
Wyoming Writers Free Verse Poetry 2009
Range Writers Poetry Contest, 2006
Poetry Appearing in Anthologies:
Blood, Water, Wind and Stone: An Anthology of Wyoming Writers, Sastrugi Press, 2016
Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering Our Pets, University Professors Press, 2016
The Absence of Something Specified by Harriot West 2016
Reflections of the West; Cowboy Painters and Poets, Editor C.J. Hadley 2015
Manifest West, Western Press Books, 2015
TallGrass Writers Anthology, Outriders Press, 2015
Black Hills Literary Journal: Random Variables, 2014
Women Writing the West, 2012
Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscape,
A Juried Book Competition of Photography, Poetry and Prose, Taylor and O’Neill, 2012
New Poets of the American West, Many Voices Press, 2010
Wyoming Fence Lines, An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Wyoming Humanities Council, 2007
In the Shadow of the Bear Lodge, Editor, Bearlodge Writers, Many Kites Press, 2006
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Hard Ground IV: Writing the Rockies, Pronghorn Press, 2003
Cowgirl Poetry: One Hundred Years of Ridin' and Rhymin', Gibbs Smith, 2001
Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West, Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Trail Dust: A Limited Edition Collection of Western Poetry, WY Agricultural Leadership Council, 2000