Invited to be a Final Judge for the Minnesota Book Awards, March 2010
Featured guest author at Buckham Memorial Library, Faribault,
November 2008
One of The Shabo Award participants with Marion Dane Bauer; The Loft; October 2008
Finalist in Nonfiction, The Loft Mentor Series; 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002
One of 7 finalists in the Memorists Collective Memoir Contest; MySpace; 2006
Selected for limited enrollment in "Write That Book" with Cheri Register; The Loft; 2004
Individual Artist Grant, Southwest Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council, 2002
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Kids' Guide to Military Vehicles, Capstone Press, Fall 2009
Airmen of the U.S. Air Force, Capstone Press, January 2009
Soldiers of the U.S. Army, Capstone Press, January 2009
The Story of the Minnesota Wild, The Creative Company, September 2008
Column
"On the Bookshelf," Faribault Daily News, 2003-08
Education
"Conversations about Inclusion: Connecting Mainstream and ESL,"
MinneWITESOL Journal, Summer 2008
"Our changing classrooms," Minnesota Parent, May 2006
Essays and Articles
"I Do': Women Who Photograph Weddings," Rangefinder, May 2008
"Going Forward: A new endowment honors the late Jim Goff's unstoppable
drive," Today, Winter 2008
"Committed to Community: A history rooted in Mankato drives HickoryTech
to give back," Today, Fall 2007
Memoir
"Wild Blue Yonder," Letters to My Teacher, Adams Media, April 2006
"Facing the Music," Static, April 2006
"X," Big Ugly Review at www.biguglyreview.com, April 2005
Poetry
"The Clawed Brain," Blue Earth Review, Spring 2006
"Poetic Harmony," cover story on author Phil Bryant; Midwest Mix Magazine, July/August 2009
"Deep Blue: Spelunking in Faribault's Cheese Caves," Minnesota Monthly, May 2007
"Dream Deferred," cover story on artist Joyce A. Young, Minnesota Moments, Nov./Dec.2005
"Grave Responsibility: Andy 'Digger' Hager makes his living six feet under,"
Minnesota Monthly, September 2005
