2012
- First Place Award Winner Health: Death and Dying category, 2012 International Book Awards Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
- Finalist Self-Help General 2012 International Book Awards Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
2011
- First Place Award-Winner in the “Spirituality: Inspirational” category of the 2011 International Book Awards Lessons for the Living
2010
- Best Buddhist Writing of 2010 An excerpt from Lessons for the Living has been chosen as lead chapter.
2009
2007
- This I Believe NPR/PBS national radio program. One of six essayists chosen to read in San Francisco.
- 1st Place, Choices, a play in three acts. 2007 Festival of New Work at the Oxford International Institute for Documentary and Drama in Conflict Transformation
2005
- 1st Place, Living in the Elephant’s Footprint, Non-Fiction, 16th Annual Jack London Writing Conference
2004
2002
- 1st Place, You’ll Like It, Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry
- 2nd Place, Demcheck Avenue, Foster City International Writing Contest, Short Story
- 3rd Place, Images of New York, Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest
- 2nd Place, Tidal Movements, American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging Poetry/Photography Contest
- 1st Place, Chariots of Conscience, Greyhound Lines National Essay Contest
2001
- 1st Place, A Bean Hollow Goodbye, California State Poetry Society, August
- 2nd Place, Images of New York, California State Poetry Society, September
