• “Don Jose’s Cocina 1984” from my New Mexico Elsewhere collection won first place for Creative Non-Fiction in The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo writing contest in December 2025. You can read it here.

• My short story, “Cecile and the River,” was a finalist in Women Writing the West’s LAURA Short Fiction contest in 2016. It can be found on the Women Writing the West website under previous winners 2016.

• “My Four Corners Story” was a finalist in Story Circle Network’s Life Writing Competition in 2016.

• My winter celebration story, “Daphne Catches The Light,” was a finalist for short prose in the Santa Fe New Mexican’s  2013 winter writing contest. You can read it here.