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List of Awards, Grants, and Honors* Finalist, Hobson Foundation People's Choice Dream Grant, Gettysburg, PA, 2006. * The Gina Guerra Scholarship, Casa Italiana, Chicago, IL., 2005. * Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, 2005. * Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for National Fiction, Rinehart Fund/ * C-SPAN Archive Grant, Washington, D.C., 2004. * The Notorious Fellowship for Literary Fiction, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR., 2004. * Residency Fellow, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR., 2004. * Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, 2005, 2004. * Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grants, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2004, 2003, and 2002. * Samuel Ostrowsky Humanities Award, Roosevelt University, 2001. * Residency Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL., 2001, 2000. * Ragdale Foundation/ Foundation Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation, 2000. * Playboy College Fiction Contest, Third Prize, Chicago, IL./ * Chicago Women in Publishing 22nd Annual Awards Competition, Issues Relevant to Women category, First Prize, Chicago, IL., 1995. |
Selected WorksAwards, Grants, and Honors
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Listing of various awards for my writing and teaching. Book Review
Chicago Review
This originally appeared in the Chicago Review. Click on link to read. Book reviews
Book magazine
List of published reviews. Book, Music, and Art Reviews
ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Chicago's Subnation, The Creative Woman, Chicago Artists' News, and Newcity
List of reviews. Click on link. Essays
Facts on File Companion to the American Novel
A list of my essays that appear in the Facts on File Guide to American Novel. Click on link to view the list of my essays that appear in the book and to order the book. This title can also be ordered by clicking on the image and link on my main page. Fiction
Needs
Originally appeared in ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) in 2000. The journal mistakenly listed it as creative non-fiction in ACM. My dad is happy to hear that this narrative is fiction. Click on link to read. Regina Leigh
Originally published in Room of One's Own in 2000. Placed third in Playboy's 1998 College Fiction Contest. Click on link to read. Magazine and Newpaper Articles
Time
Click on link to view list of feature brites I wrote as an editorial intern. Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Articles from The Times of Northwest Indiana
List of feature articles originally published in The Times of Northwest Indiana and links to read five of those articles. Articles from Chicago Artists' News, Lake Shore Drive, The Creative Woman, and Trends in College Media
Click on link to view list of published articles. |
