Bully In The Spotlight , my 40 page docu-poetry chapbook is published by Pudding House Publications. My poems are also published in three anthologies and many university presses. I was a semi-finalist in Elixir’s 2006 ms. Awards, and in Radcliffe’s 2000 Bunting Fellowship. I won the 1999 Geraldine Griffin Moore award, and the 1998 Jerome Lowell DeJur Manuscript Award/2nd place from City College. From Hunter College I won poetry manuscript awards: The 1998 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship, The Sylvia Faulkner Award, The 1998 Poet In New York Prize/Honorable Mention, The 1998 Audre Lorde Award/2nd Place. From the N.O.W. I won 2nd place in their 1998 non-fiction essay contest.
I taught creative writing/poetry at a NYC public school & high school, and to children & adults at ESCAPE To The Arts—the Writer’s Voice at the Regional YMCA of Western CT. I curated the open mic reading series for the Writer’s Voice at ESCAPE, and for seven years @ Westside YMCA in NYC.