HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Finalist Grant (Playwriting, The Continuing Drama of Cinnamon Jones) (MCC), 2019
  • Keynote at the Write Angles Literary Conference, November, 2018
  • Guest of Honor, FOGcon Science Fiction Convention, California, March 2018
  • A MASS Book Awards “MUST READ” for Will Do Magic For Small Change, 2018
  • Finalist for the Mythopoeic Award for Will Do Magic For Small Change, 2017
  • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Will Do Magic For Small Change, 2017
  • Finalist for the James Tiptree Award for Will Do Magic For Small Change, 2017
  • Honored Professor, Smith College, 2016
  • Guest of Honor, Sirens Science Fiction Convention, Oregon, November 2014
  • Guest of Honor, Readercon Science Fiction Convention, Boston, July 2014
  • Carl Brandon Kindred Award for Redwood and Wildfire, 2014
  • The Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Smith College, 2013
  • Guest of Honor, Wisconsin Feminist Science Fiction Convention, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2012
  • James Tiptree Award for Redwood and Wildfire, 2012
  • IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award, 2011
  • 2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award for Mindscape, 2010
  • Launch Pad—Fellow at NASA funded Writer’s Workshop, August 2008
  • Guest of Honor, Diversicon Science Fiction Convention, Minneapolis, MN, August 2007
  • James Tiptree Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007
  • Philip K. Dick Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007
  • Older Writers Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2005
  • Dana Writer Awards, Finalist in Fiction for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2004, 2008
  • Dana Writer Awards, Finalist in Poetry for Archangels of Funk poems, 2004
  • Saul O. Sidore Memorial Foundation Grant, 2004
  • Blue Mountain Center, Writing Residency, 2004, 2007
  • Heideman Award for short plays (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Finalist for Soldier in the Closet, 2003
  • Fellowship Grant (Playwriting, Archangels of Funk) Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), 2003
  • Puffin Foundation Grant for Archangels of Funk and Stage Fright 2003
  • New England Foundation for The Arts Meet The Composer Grant (With Pan Morigan Welland) 2003
  • Rhode Island Arts Foundation Grant with Tony Vacca, 2002
  • Finalist Grant (Playwriting, Hummingbird Flying Backwards) Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), 2001
  • Art Angels Grant, Pregnant and Parenting Teen Project, 2001
  • Fund For Women Artists Community Arts Grant, 2000, 2001
  • New Century Writer Awards, Finalist in Fiction for Mindscape excerpt, 1999
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant for New Work with the Fund For Women Artists, 1999
  • Harnish Fellowship, Smith College, 1998-99, 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2008-2009
  • Collaborative (Theatre/Music) Grant with Massamba Diop, Inroads, Arts International, Ford Foundation, 1996
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Theatre Grant with Chrysalis Theatre 1995-96, 1996-97
  • Springfield, Holyoke, Greenfield Arts Council Grants, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Community Foundation of Western MA Grant with Chrysalis, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999
  • MCC Collaborative Assistance Grant — Chrysalis and Northern Educational Service Of Springfield, 1994, 1995
  • MCC Collaborative Assistance Grant — Chrysalis and StageWest 1993
  • MCC Organizational Support Grant with Chrysalis Theatre, 1992-2010
  • Smith Design Award, 1991-1992
  • National Endowment for the Arts Grant To Playwrights, (Signs of Life) 1988
  • Finalist Grant (Poetry) Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1988
  • New England Foundation for The Arts Meet The Composer Grants (With Tony Vacca) 1984-89, 1995, 1996
  • Semi-finalist (Poetry) Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1987
  • Northampton Arts Council Grants (Playwriting, Directing) 1983-87, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001-04, 2009, 2011
  • Fusion/Fission Grant, National Endowment for the Arts and Rockefeller Foundation, 1986
  • Merit Aid Grants, Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities with Chrysalis Theatre, 1982-1991
  • Master Artist-in-Residence, MA Artists Foundation, 1983
  • Aid to Faculty Scholarship Grant, Smith College, 1980, 1991-2008
  • Winner, the Women’s Theatre of Seattle Women’s Playwright Festival, 1980
  • Artist-in-Residence Grant, MA Artists Foundation, 1979-80
  • Finalist (Playwriting) MA Artists Foundation 1978, 1986
  • Shubert Fellowship, 1975-76, 1976-77
  • Denis Johnston Award for Playwriting, Smith College, 1974