Recent Awards & Pubs

Jack London Service Award for Marin, California Writers Club, 2025. https://calwriters.org/our-story/#london

“The Gift”, a tanka poem selected for the Vision & Verse Anthology, to be published Fall 2025.

The Barking Dog, shortlisted for the Letter Review Prize in Short Fiction category for July- September 2024.

Yin and Yang, chosen by Redwood Writers for live reading live by Off Page Readers Theater in September 2024.

Three Tanka Translations, MedMic, 17 June 2024.

The Kindness of Strangers, Colgate Magazine, Autumn 2023.

Crying in the Driveway, New York Times (Modern Love), 2 May 2023.

Marin Poetry Society Anthology, Fall 2023.

Redwood Writers Anthology, Summer 2023.

Activities

President, California Writers Club of Marin

Member, Yosano Akiko Club

Member, Authors Guild

Member, Marin Poetry Center

Volunteer since 2010, Refugee and Immigrant Transitions