1990 Wyoming Writers Emmie Mygatt Success Award
1991 Range Writers Poetry Contest, 1st place, THE DAKOTA, 1991: “Prairie Quilt”
1995 Wyoming Writers Emmie Mygatt Success Award
1999 Children’s Writers Fiction Contest, 1st place
2001 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement
2004 IRA’s Wyoming State Celebrate Literacy Award
2005 Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award nominee (Secret of the Black Widow)
2006 Western Writer’s Spur Award nominee (Four Wheels West)
2006 38th Children’s Literature Festival at Central Missouri State University
2010 Wyoming State Historical Society Award for Best Fiction (Dee and the Mammoth)
2010. Delaware Diamonds Book List Children’s Choice Award (My Teacher Dances on the Desk)
2010 Raising Readers in Wyoming
2011. National Book Festival in Washington, D.C (Dee and the Mammoth)
2013 College of Education Fall Literacy Conference. “Encouraging Creative Writing in K-8 Classrooms.” University of Wyoming.
2016. Recipient of Recipient of the Office of the Poet Laureate of Wyoming
2017 Wyoming Geographic Alliance Conference
2018 EVVY Award winner, 3rd place (Wedge of Fear)
2018 National Book Festival in Washington, DC. (Is It True?)
2019 EVVY Award winner, 2nd place (Snap)