| HONORS AND AWARDS: |
| 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 |