Notable Accomplishments
“God’s Beauty Marks”
Nominated as finalist in the Tiferet Journal nonfiction writing contest (2015)
Awards
Writing Awards
- 8th Prize Winner for Magazine Feature titled “If You Want It, Come and Get It: How Today’s Music Defines Female Sexuality” from the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition
- 4th Prize Winner for Magazine Feature titled “Getting Kids to Love Reading” from Writer’s Digest 81st Annual Writing Competition (2012)
- Honorable Mention for Magazine Feature titled “Rape Culture” from Writer’s Digest 80th Annual Writing Competition (2011)
- 5th Prize Winner for a feature magazine article titled “From Little Girls to Prostitots” — Awarded by the 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (2010)
- 48th Prize winner for a creative non-fiction excerpt from DROWNING SQUIRRELS — Awarded by the 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (2010)
TeachingAwards
- Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016
- Nominated for Sakai Online Teaching Award, 2015 and 2016
- Recipient of the 2009-2010 Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award by Durham Technical Community College
Conference Presentations
- The Hunger Memoirs: Women Writers Searching for Identity and Power through Food on Food and Memoir panel at the SAMLA Conference in 2012.
- Presented a discussion on “A Loaded Gun”: Female Power and Voice in Emily Dickinson’s Work at Durham Technical Community College during Poetry Hour in 2013
- Taught poetry workshop on Writing Found Poems to faculty and students at Durham Tech in 2014
- Conducted a Poetry Hour presentation on “My Jagged Fangs”: Using Poetry to Combat Violence against Women in 2015
- “Writing the Immersion Memoir” Craft Presentation for MFA program at Queens University, Charlotte, in 2015
- Presented on Student Web Pages for Sakai Tools in TLC, 2014 and 2016
Publications
Her Circle Ezine
- Anti-Feminist Ideals in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey'
- Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’
- Disappointing Heroine: Katniss in ‘The Hunger Games’
- Women in Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Enchantress of Florence’
- Resisting Marriage and Motherhood in Gilbert’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Female Illnesses
- Between Writing and Mothering
- Media and Violence Against Women
The New Agenda
- Political Correctness for Everyone but Women
- How Media Defines Gender and Values
- Girl Power in Sucker Punch, Hanna, and Winter’s BoneRape, Male Privilege and Sports
- Military Rapes No Longer Silenced
- Sex Trafficking: Super Bowl’s Underbelly Exposed
- Seven Empowering New Year’s Resolutions for Women
Huffington Post
BlogHer
- On Shaving: It’s My Body
- Ten Empowering Christmas Gifts for Girls
- Why My Seven-Year-Old Doesn’t Make a List for Santa
- Six Writers Who Saved My Life
EzineArticles
- Book Review: ‘Shiva’s Arms’ by Cheryl Snell
MORE Magazine
The WM Freelance Writers Connection
WE Magazine for Women
The WM Parenting Connection
- Teaching Kids to Dream Big
- The Semantics of Beauty and Raising Girls
- Letter to Soccer Moms and Dads
- Valentine’s Day: The Saint, The Mother, and Her Darlings
- New Year’s Mommy Resolutions Towards Healthier Parenting
- Cleaning: A Family Affair
- Dora: From Explorer to Princess
- Fighting and The Kids
- Dealing with Bullies
- How to Train Our Parent Selves
- Girls as Eye Candy
- Parental Expectations and Letting Go
- The Good Father
- The Perfect Mother Fallacy