Poet
Publications & Prizes
2012 & 2014 Winner, Friends of SF Public Library, District 11 poetry contest
2002 Winner, Audre Lord Award for Fiction
2002 Winner, Stonewall Alumni Scholarship for Fiction
2003 Third place winner, J.T. Highsmith Playwriting Award
2001 Honorable Mention, Ann Fields Poetry Prize
1990 One of three “DeWar’s Young Artists” Recognition Award Recipients for
Literature in California.
1989 San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, 2nd place winner; (finalist,
Bay Guardian contest, l991.)
1990, 1991, Five year winner, Browning Society Poetry Contest for Dramatic
2002-2004 Narrative Poetry
2014 Semi-finalist in poetry and fiction categories, Tucson Book Festival
2002 Winner, Stonewall Alumni Scholarship for Fiction
2004 & 2005 San Francisco Unified School District Literary Arts Teacher of the Year
award through the SFUSD Youth Arts Festival—2004; Royal Bank of
Canada/Dain Rauscher Literary Arts Teacher of the Year Award and grant
through the San Francisco Unified School District—2005.