"Letters Home from Sunshine Mountain,"  Relief Journal, Issue 2.3

http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/181/1/

              Nominated by Relief Journal for the Dinty Moore "The Best of Creative Nonfiction Anthology, Vol.3"

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"Asking for Salt" Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, Issue 58, July '08

Featured on the Image website

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"There's Things," Brevity  Issue 27, May '08 

Read this essay online at the Brevity website

Look under Past Issues, #27

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/index.htm

"Dill," Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, Issue 3, Spring 2007

http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/67/84/

"On with Writing," Minnesota Literature, Feb. 2007 

               3rd Place Essay Winner                

"Frame of My Joy,"  Minnesota Literature, Vol. 31, No.5, Jan. 2006

1st place Essay Winner

"To Remember," North Country at UND, Spring 2005

"Mai," The Talking Stick, Vol. 14 Finding Your Way Home, 2005  

http://www.thetalkingstick.com/14.php

"SiLozi Song," Dust & Fire: Writing by Women, Vol. 19, March 2005

                          http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/publications/dust_and_fire/