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.
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
