Books
This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through the Camera’s Eye (The Humble Essayist Press ). Honorable Mention for The 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Finalist for The 2025 National Indie Excellence Award in Photography, Finalist for the 2025 Book Excellence Award in the photography category, Finalist for the 2025 Colorado Author League Award in Poetry.
Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from the Pandemic, (Finishing Line Press 2022) a semi-finalist for the Finishing Line Press’ 2021 Open Chapbook Contest .
Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, (Saddle Road Press 2020) awarded a Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for Essay, and a finalist for the Colorado Author League Book Award.
Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation, (Conundrum Press) finalist in the Foreword Reviews 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards.
Air Into Breath, 2002 ((Ashland Poetry Press), a Colorado Book Award Winner, alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets
Stepping Sideways Into Poetry, Scholastic Inc (2005)
You Can Learn Online, co-authored, McGraw-Hill,( 2002.
You can Teach Online: Building Creative Learning Environments, co-authored, McGraw-Hill (2001.
Publications and Awards
- 2025 Spring “Corridors,” The Ekphrastic Review, photo and poem
- 2025 Spring “All We Can Do Is Recollect What We Have Known”: A Tribute to Marty McGovern —
Poet, Playwright, Teacher, Friend at Bristlecone magazine - 2025 Spring Memories of a Suburban Naturalist at Terrain.org
- 2024 Moth Orchid at the Botanical Gardens nominated by Ekphrastic Review for Best of Net 2025
- 2024 fall: Intra-view between Poet Sydney Lea and me on our new books published in fall Fourth Genre.
- 2024 Winner of the Loveland Poet Laureate Ekphrastic Poem contest; poem: We Make Rivers displayed at Loveland Public LIbrary for one year.
- 2023 I Like An Old Woods: Cricket Magazine for kids
- 2023 Photographing The Wild Geranium: Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Tiny Seed Poetry of Wild Flower Anthology
- 2023 Octopus on a Sea Dock: winner of the Colorado Author League Awards Single Poem division. Flying Beneath the Dog Star (finalist for the CAL Awards poetry collections) and Floating (finalist for the CAL Awards single essay division).
- 2023 Shanti Arts : Floating in the Riparian in its winter 2023 issue.
- 2023 Terrain.org chooses Mist Nets:After the Uvalde Shooting as one of four finalists for its 2022 Nonfiction contest.
- 2022 “Floating“nominated for Pushcart Prize by Riverteeth.
- 2022 Cricket Magazine for Kids: I Like An Old Snow (poem) TBP wow, maybe two years from now!
- 2022 Terrain. org: Folding Cranes in the Golden Hour (essay) July 13. 2022
- 2022 Flyaway: Journal of Writing and Environment: “Crow,” “At the Naturalist’s Workshop,” and “Hawks 101”
- 2022 River Teeth: “Floating” Vol 23 No. 2 Spring issue 2022 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- 2022: Split Rock Review: “On Cow Ponds and Glass Frogs: Using the Poetry Prompt” (essay) Jan 1
- 2021 Green Briar: cover photo, Heron in Winter, for Winter 2021 Issue.
- 2021 Independent Publisher: For the Love of the Writer: The Humble Essayist Press
- 2021 Split Rock Review: “Octopus on a Sea Dock”
- 2021: The Colorado Sun: Sun Lit Interview on Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
- 2021 The Colorado Sun: excerpt from “Sky Glow” and poem, Waking after 1800 Dead
- 2021 Creation and the Cosmo Anthology: select nature poems and photos
- 2021 Colorado Author League Excellence Awards: Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children (finalist)
- 2020 Refuse to Be Silent Anthology: collaborative poems
- 2020 Pink Progression Collaboration at the Arvada Center with artist Trine Bumiller
- 2020: Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Award semifinalist: Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from a Pandemic; tbp 2022
- 2020 Bronze Medal for Essay Independent Publisher Book Awards for Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
- 2020 Finalist Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards: Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
- 2020 Essay Daily: On the Intimacies of Revision
- 2020 Tiny Seed Literary Journal: To the Swallow This Spring at the State Park’s Nest Box
- 2020 Kingsview& Co. To the Three Ducks Flying Beneath the Dog Star
- 2020: Saddle Road Press: Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
- 2020 Inverted Syntax: Heart in Nature: An Interview with Kathryn Winograd
- 2019 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize Finalist: “Gravitational Waves.”
- 2019 Juxtaprose: “Unearthing the Frail Children”
- 2018 Inverted Syntax: “Slow Arrow” essay
- 2016: Distinquished Faculty, ACC
- 2016 Fourth Genre: “On Spill Light and the Art of Dark Adaption”
- 2016 Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship recipient for the Bread Loaf Orion Conference.
- 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2016, Honorable Mention for “Breviaries of the Ghost”
- 2016 “On Intla” River Teeth
- 2015 Essay Daily: Kathryn Winograd on the Lyric Impulse: Blizzards, Bricks, and the “Glaciology” of Purpura
- 2014: Finalist Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards: Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation
- 2013 Conundrum Press: Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation
- 2014 Cutthroat: “Hymenoptera”
- 2014 Essay Daily: Jill Christman on Kathryn Winograd’s Bathing
- 2013 “The Lives of Cells” Pushcart Prize XXXVIII Special Mention
- 2013: Talking Writing: “Disjunctions of Lichen”
- 2013 FutureCycle Press – Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai : “etymology of girl”
- 2012 Hotel Amerika: “Phantom Mares
- 2012 Pushcart Nomination, The Lives of Cells
- 2012 Fourth Genre: “Heresies of the Holy,”
- 2012Puerto del Sol: “On White Space and Silence,”
- 2012 Fourth Genre: “Heresies of the Holy,”
- 2012 “On Wind and Fire,” semi-finalist for The Florida Review’s Editors’ Awards, published
- 2012 “On Wind and Fire,” finalist for Fourth Genre’s 2012 Michael Steinberg Essay Prize
- 2012 rkvry: “Afterward: a draft”
- 2012 Fast Forward Press: “45 Year Rain”
- 2012 Bathing” and “(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay 6th edition of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/an Creative Nonfiction textbook/anthology.
- 2011 “The Lives of Cells” First Place 2011 Chautauqua poetry contest on War and Peace.
- 2011 “Migrations” First Place in the Non-Rhyming Poetry category of the 2011 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. Published in anthology
- 2011 “Heresies of the Holy,” finalist for Fourth Genre’s 2011 Michael Steinberg Essay Prize
- 2011 “Bathing,” Notable essay in The Best American Essays 2011
- 2010: Fourth Genre: “Bathing”
- 2010: Literary Mama, Talismans of the Whirlpool
- 2010: River Teeth: Unearthing Leetso: Yellow Monster Beneath the Four Corners of the World
- 2010 Hotel Amerika: “Guns, Knives, and The Amazon Warrior Princess”
- 2009 “Elegies” (now titled “ Adaptations of An Avian Migration Glossary”),The University of New Orleans Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing
- 2009 Ann Standford Poetry Prize finalist for “To The Lost Burros of Cripple Creek Mine
- 2008 The Center for Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Poetry Competition semi-finalist for “Notes on Being.”
- 2008 Calyx vol 24 no 2, “Menarche,” “Memories of Horses
- 2008 Cutthroat: “My Mother Going Blinds Sees the World”
- 2008 Wazee Journal: “Dark Skies,” “Finding the Well.”
- 2007 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize finalist
- 2007 Distinguish Faculty Award for 2006-2007, Arapahoe Community College
- 2007 Pushcart Nomination
- 2007 Awarded Distinguished Faculty for 2006-2007
- Stepping Sideways Into Poetry, Scholastic Inc (2005)
- 2003 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Teaching the River of Words online poetry resources for K-12 teachers
- 2003 Colorado Center for the Book Winner, Air Into Breath, Poetry
- 2003 Colorado Author League Award for Poetry
- 2003 Denver Woman’s Press Club Award for Poetry
- You Can Learn Online, co-authored, McGraw-Hill,( 2002):
- 2002: Ashland Poetry Press: Air Into Breath
- You can Teach Online: Building Creative Learning Environments, co-authored, McGraw-Hill (2001):
- 2000 Mother Earth Living: Winter Garden
- 1999 CSU Poetry Center Prize, Book Semi-Finalist
- 1998 The Denver Quarterly “Night Prayer”
- The Antioch Review: “Winter Betrayal,” v 46 no. 3
- 1999 Colorado Review: ” Receiving the Father’s Love.”
- Cincinnati Poetry Review: “In A Country We Didn’t Know.”
- The Journal: “Mira’s Dream.” v20.1
- Kalliope: “At the Ruins of the Aztec Goddess Ix-Chel,” “Day of Atonements vXII no. 2
- Many Mountains Moving: “The Weasel Sandman.” v1 no.3,
- The Ohio Review: “Infecundity.” no. 41
- Poets Lore: “Roto Rooter Man.” no. 36
- 1998 TriQuarterly: “Finch Nested.”
- 1998 Wilderness Magazine Anthology: “Snake”
- 1998 Yankee “Skinny Dipping”
- Water-Stone: “Incubations.” v2, no1
- 1999 Weber Studies A Dream of Bear,” “Early Labors,” “Standing at the Base of Monterey’s Three Story Aquarium,” “Family Alzheimers,”
- 1998 Colorado Artist Fellowship in Literature for Poetry
- 1998 Bakeless Literary Prize in Poetry, Book Finalist
- 1996 New Issues Press Poetry Series, Book Finalist
- 1996 Ashland Poetry Press/ Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Award, Book Finalist
- 1996 University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Prize, Book Semi-finalist 1996
- 1995 The Denver Quarterly: “Sleeping With Our Daughters.”
- 1995 Ohio State University Press/ The Journal Award in Poetry, Book Finalist
- 1994 Yale Series for Younger Poets, Book Finalist
- 1990 Yale Series for Younger Poets, Book Alternate
- 1997 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Single Poem Finalist
- 1996 Nomination for Colorado’s Poet Laureate
- 1996 Ann Woodbury Hafen Award, Single Poem, First Place
- 1996 Coordinating Council of Literary Magazine’s General Electric Foundation Awards for Younger Writers Nomination
- 1995 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Single Poem Finalist
- 1995 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Contest, Single Poem Finalist
- 1995 Colorado Author League Top Hands Poetry Award, Single Poem
- 1994 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Contest, Single Poem Finalist
- 1994 Pushcart Prize Nomination, Wilderness Magazine, 1994.
- 1993 Rocky Mountain Woman’s Institute Fellowship
- 1990 Artist Resource List, Colorado Council for the Arts
- 1990 Juniper Prize,Book Finalist.
- 1989 Chester H. Jones National Poetry Contest, Single Poem Second place.
- 1987 Academy of American Poets Prize,
- 1986 Colorado Graduate Fellowship, University of Denver
- 1986-1989 University of Denver Teaching Fellowship
- 1986 Academy of American Poets Award,
- 1984 The New Yorker: “Before Nightfall.”
- 1986 Houston Discovery Prize, Second place.
- 1984 Houston Discovery Prize, Single Poem Finalist
- 1983 Four Year Alumni Graduate Scholarship, University of Houston
- 1983 University of Houston, Five Year Teaching Fellowship, 1983.
Selected Articles
- Denver Water Department/Colorado Center for the Book: “Teaching the River of Words” print booklet for all Denver Public Schools 6th Grade Science Teachers
- Winds of Change: American Indian Education & Opportunity: “One Harvest: Poetry and Stories of the Middle Ground Project, Winter Issue 2009
- Converge Magazine: “ Literacy and Technology: Lighting the Dark” Dec 2002/Jan 2003
- Converge Magazine: “For The Love of Art: Technology, Trepidation and Time” June, 2002
- The Technology Source, “The ABCs of the Virtual High School.” March/April 2002
- Converge Magazine, “Vision Seekers in Education: the Makings of a Collaboratory” Dec 2001
- Converge Magazine, “Migrant Families: Moving Up with Technology” Nov 2001
- Adjunct Advocate, “Understanding the New ‘e’ in eLearning.” 2000
- Converge Magazine, “Project Virtual Chautauqua” June 2000.
- The Technology Source, Feb/Mar 2000 “Practicing the Good Practice in Faculty Development”
- Information Technology in Postsecondary Education, “The Internet and the Arts: Classroom Style,” June 6, 2000.
- The Bloomsbury Review,” Cyberspace and a Piece of the Soul: Teaching Poetry Online.” vol18 Issue 4, Summer 1998
- Delicious Magazine, “Old Love,” April 2000
- Natural Homes Magazine, “Elegy of the Farm,” June 2000
- Mountain Living “Ordinary Gods,” Summer 1997
- Mountain Living “Wild Beauty,””Winter, 1999
Selected Children’s Poems and Stories
- Cricket Magazine January 2008, “Skating”
- poem for the New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island Departments of Education
- Cricket Magazine: “Puddle,” v23 no. 7; “BarnSwing” Nov 1997″Pea,” “Spider,” “First Storm” July 2002;
- Shoofly “Kite” v 2, no. 7; “Eating Apples in an Apple Tree” v.3 no 3; “Dragonfly” and “Sprinkler” v.3 no. 2; Children’s story: “When Winter Comes”– Winter, 1998
