Maryland State Judge for the “Letters About Literature, 1998; The Center for the Book Library of Congress” Contest (High School)
Commencement Speaker at Harford Community College, May 17, 1998
Fiction Editor for The Baltimore Review.
Writer in residence (one week) at Saint Paul’s School for Girls, Brooklandville, Maryland, 1997
Featured reader/teacher at:
The National League of American Pen Women (Carroll County Branch,) Harford Community College,
Independent Schools of Maryland (Gilman, McDonough, St. Paul's School for Girls)
Dialogue Among Civilizations Poetry; Baltimore, Maryland
India Night
National Public Radio
Glimpses of India--to read preview, click here
Read poems and short stories at many area cafes and bookstores in the Baltimore/Washington region, including Bibelot, Borders, Louie’s, Barnes and Nobles, Minas Art gallery, Pinocchios, Atticus (Wash.) The Writer’s Center (Bethesda,) Los Angeles, New Zealand and other places.(see schedules)
Taught many fiction workshops in Albany, NY, Baltimore MD (see schedule)
Competitive Acceptances at:
BreadLoaf Writer's Conference, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1998
Ragdale Artists Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, 2001