AWARDS

2016 Libido Tsunami, Awash with the Droll in Life, award in the Pacific Rim Book Festival

2015 Running from the Pack, poetry anthology, award in the Pacific Rim Book Festival, 1 poem included in the antholoby

2014 Volutions, poetry anthology, multiple awards-Pacific Rim Book Festival, Los Angeles Book Festival , London Book Festival, 4 poems included in the anthology

2014 1st prize for non-fiction, Lorin Tarr Gill Writing competition

[To read this winning essay, The Girdle, see Blog]

2014 -16 Award, 36th to 38th Annual "Committment to Excellence," Honolulu Japanese Chamber of

Commerce

2007 Chroma Award, National League of American Pen Women

1998 Wu & Elsie Ject-Key Memorial Award, N.A.W.A., New York City

1997 International Woman of the Year Award, International Biographical Ctr

1997 The 20th Century Award for Achievement, Internat’l Biographical Ctr.

1996 Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award, N.A.W.A., New York City

1995 Juror's Award, National League of American Pen Women

1986 Teaching Excellence Award, Sierra Nevada College, Incline, Nevada

1980 Grant, Tosco Corporation, Los Angeles, California

1974 Juror's Award, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo,CA

1966 Max H. Block Award for Humanism , City of Seattle, Washington

Flying Meditation, Kaethe Kauffman

cyanotype on muslin, life-size