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Publications

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Recognitions & Awards

  • "Humiliation,28 Voices, 2024

  • Shellback, young adult historical fiction, 2024.

  • "Synchronicity", Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, 2023.

  • "Lake Durant," Art Speaks, 2021.

  • Bean Pickers, American Immigrant Portraits, creative non-fiction, 2019.

  •  "Lucy's Story," In the Company of Women, 2016.

  • “Francis Foresti: The Attack on Pearl Harbor,” Cortland County Serves, 2015.

  • “Using Deliberation in the Classroom: A Teaching Pedagogy to Enhance Student Knowledge, Opinion Formation, and Civic Engagement,” Journal of Political Science Education, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2012.

  • “A Community Deliberative Polling Event:  The Economic Impact of Walmart,” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, fall, 2011.

  • “Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan: My Rows and Piles of Coins,” Social Studies Research and Practice, 2010.

  • National League of American Pen Women - 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.

  • William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition - 2017, 2018,2020,2021. 

  • Women on Writing, 2020, 2021, 2022

  • Central New York Book Award nomination, 2019.

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