COMPETITIONS:
2011 SCBWI Barbara Karlin grant winner with picture book “Monsterella”
2010 Second place in the SouthWest Writer’s contest, picture book category, for “The Mousequerade”
2010 Second place in the June Smories competition for “I Want Cake!”
2009 First place in the SouthWest Writers’ contest, picture book category, for “Trog and Ogel”
2008 shortlisting for the May Writers’ News magazine story competition for “The Remembrance”
2010 Second place in the SouthWest Writer’s contest, picture book category, for “The Mousequerade”
2010 Second place in the June Smories competition for “I Want Cake!”
2009 First place in the SouthWest Writers’ contest, picture book category, for “Trog and Ogel”
2008 shortlisting for the May Writers’ News magazine story competition for “The Remembrance”
PUBLICATION:
2011 knowonder! stories, “Dirty Bear”
EDUCATION:
2010 Graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature