Publications and Awards
8/21/22 “The Trip of a Lifetime” won 2nd place at the Travel Writing and Photography Conference.
2021 Soul Making Keats Writing Awards: Honorable mention for “Signs of Life” and “Lost Leading a Hemingway Tour”
3/8/22 “Jack’s Ashes” in The Curator Magazine
Fall 2021 “The Trip of a Lifetime” in The Watershed Review
4/1/20 Fourteenth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing : Silver for “Jack’s Ashes,” Bronze for “Signs of Life,” Honorable mention for “One True Sentence”
8/11/19 Signs of Life won 1st Place at the Travel Writing and Photography Conference. The prize was a Deep Travel writing retreat to Mexico with travel writer Tim Cahill!
3/29/19 “Alive in the World” was published by GeoEx
3/1/19 “Alive in the World” won a Solas Award for Best Travel Writing
8/10/18 “Alive in the World” won 3rd Place at the Travel Writing and Photography Conference
Workshops and Travel
2025 Program Assistant for Paris Travel Memoir Workshop (Beginner and Advanced) with Rolf Potts
2025 Program Assistant for Paris Screenplay Writing Workshop with Kim Krizan
2025 Paris Study Abroad faculty with De Anza College
2024 Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference
2024 Program Assistant for Paris Travel Memoir Workshop I and II with Rolf Potts
2023 Lavinia Spalding “Writing the Travel Essay” Worskhop – 6 weeks August – October
2023 Program Coordinator for Paris Travel Memoir Workshop I and II with Rolf Potts
2023 London Study Abroad Faculty for De Anza College
2022 Program Coordinator for Paris Travel Memoir Workshop I with Rolf Potts
2022 Program Coordinator for Paris Travel Memoir Workshop II with Rolf Potts
2022 Program Coordinator for Paris Made Personal Travel Writing Workshop with Don George Don George’s Paris Writing Workshop Schedule
2022 Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference
2019 Paris Storytelling Journey with Don George and Catherine Karnow
2019 Paris Writing Workshop Fellow
2019 Book Passage Travel Writing Intensive with Don George
2018 Travel Writing Workshop with Larry Habebegger of Travelers’ Tales
2018 Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference
2018 Book Passage Travel Writing Intensive with Don George
2017 Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference
2017 Book Passage Travel Writing Intensive with Don George
2017 London Study Abroad Instructor for De Anza College
2016 Travel Writing with Erin Byrne
2016 Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference
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