Her narrative nonfiction book, Encounters With Rikki: from Hurricane Katrina rescue to exceptional Therapy Dog, is a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist. Her essay, “Grapes & Wrath at Mission San Luis,” was recently published in Apalachee Review literary journal and she was also named a finalist for Proximity Magazine’s Narrative Journalism Prize. Her entry will be included in an anthology coming out in 2017.