Awards & Publications
HONORS & AWARDS
"Hungry Mouths," prose poem, Top Finalist in Wingless Dreamer's Horror Poetry Contest, June 2023
Publicize This! Promoting Your Group or Nonprofit on a Limited or Nonexistent Budget tied for First Place in the Marjorie Davies Roller Nonfiction Award 2018 Biennial Letters Competition, National League of American Pen Women, Inc.
"Remarkable Fall," short fiction, received honorable mention in Family Circle magazine's 2012 Fiction Contest
FICTION, POETRY & DRAMA
"Hungry Mouths," prose poem, Nightmare Melodies (anthology, Wingless Dreamer Publisher, June 2023), p. 35
"The Witch of Blackbird Drive," flash fiction, Grim & Gilded, June 30, 2022
"No Joke," micro-fiction, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, April 16, 2021
"Arachnid Conspiracy," poem, Bards Annual 2020 (anthology, Local Gems Press, Nov 2020), pp. 134-135
"Beloved," poem, Trouvaille Review, July 25, 2020
"Amaryllis," poem, Trees in a Garden of Ashes (anthology, Local Gems Press, June 2020), pp. 129-130
"The Beekeeper," short fiction, The Write Launch, May 2020
"Remarkable Fall," short fiction, The Bangalore Review, April 2020
"Stupid Cancer," poem, Bards Annual 2018 (anthology, Local Gems Press, July 2018), pp. 165-166
"SWF 42," poem, published in The Pen Woman, Fall 2017 issue, p. 11
“Serial Killer,” flash fiction, published in Flash! Stories by Pen Women, edited by Treanor Baring, September 1, 2017
"Six Steps for Dealing with Rejections," guest blog post, published on NLAPW's blog, July 21, 2017
"Gone," poem, Bards Annual 2017: The Annual Publication of The Bards Initiative, p. 221
"Hobgoblins" and "Desert Honey," flash fiction, DNA e-zine, April 2016
"God's Mother" and "Virago," poems, Suffolk County Poetry Review 2015, pp. 88-89
"Blind Spot," poem, published on NLAPW's blog on June 27th, 2013
"Scrape," short fiction, The East Hampton Star, August 2nd, 2012, Sect. C/Arts & Living, p. 1
"New Addition," flash fiction, EveryDayFiction.com, Mar 13, 2009. Later published in the print anthology Every Day Fiction Two.
"Catch Her," poem, Main Channel Voices, Winter 2008, p. 6. Republished on NLAPW's blog on April 9th, 2013.
"Mangled Cliché," poem, Main Channel Voices, Winter 2008, p. 30
"Bee Attitude," poem, The Southampton Review, Summer/Fall 2007, Vol. 1, p. 103
"Check, Please," one-act play, selected for the Spring 2007 New Writer's Festival at Author's Playhouse in Bay Shore, New York. Performed March 16th - 18th, 2007
"The Thief of Your Heart" short fiction, The East Hampton Star, February 8th, 2007, Sect. C/Arts & Living, p. 1. Republished at VocaFemina.com.
"Old Mother," poetry, MotherVerse, Issue 5, January 2007, p. 30
"The Cult of the Lawn," poetry, PKA's Advocate, February/March 2006, p. 8
"Wax On, Wax Off," poetry, PKA's Advocate, February/March 2006, p. 10
"Nefarious Mutt," poetry, PKA's Advocate, February/March 2006, p.17
"Shinnecock Vision," poetry, Great South Bay Magazine, Nov. 2005, p. 33
"One Pair Too Many," short fiction, The East Hampton Star, Oct. 13th, 2005, Sect. C/Arts & Living, p. 1. Republished at VocaFemina.com.
"Because," fiction, Proteus, Spring 2005, pp. 76 – 104
"Serial Killer," flash fiction, Beginnings, Spring 2004, p. 12
NONFICTION
"Rejection Horror #2," 2018 Rejection Horror Stories. Submittable (blog), Oct. 31, 2018
Editor/Contributor, Creative Genius: The Inspirational Wisdom of Pen Women, Pen Women Press. Released April 15, 2018. ISBN# 978-0-9815693-8-3
"The 'Pen Man' Behind the Pen Women: Our Benefactor Jim McGrath," The Pen Woman, Winter 2017, p. 9
"How to Begin Publicizing Your Community Group/Nonprofit," LinkedIn, July 12, 2015
Articles for AOL/Huffington Post, Yahoo! and MapQuest 2011-2012
Promotional articles for Prince of Peace Regional School, AOL Patch and Sayville News, 2007 – 2011
School News column and assorted feature articles, The Bayport-Blue Point Gazette, May 2002- February 2012
FindingMaryCordial.com, a genealogy blog, 2010 - present