Bibliography

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

  • 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