Awards & HonorS
2024
The Healing Book, Distinguished Favorite, 2024 NYC Big Book Awards (Visionary Fiction Category)
Lost & Found, Finalist, 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Memoir Category)
2023
The Healing Book, Finalist, 2023 Best Book Awards (Short Story category)
The Empathy Academy, Distinguished Favorite, 2023 NYC Big Book Awards (Sci-fi Category)
The Healing Book, Novel: Gold in The Literary Titan Book Awards
Beyond Medicine, Short Story: Quarterfinalist in the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest
2022
The Empathy Academy, Novel: Notable 100 Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book
The Empathy Academy, Novel: Gold in The Literary Titan Book Awards
Backed Up in China, Essay: Semi-finalist in Tulip Tree’s annual “Humor Contest” contest
2021
Affable Man, Short Story: Semi-finalist in Tulip Tree’s annual “Stories That Need to Be Told”
The Empathy Academy, Novel: Semi-finalist in the 2021 Elixir Press Fiction Award
2019
The Healing Book, Honorable mention in The Writers’ Workshop’s 2019 Poetry Contest
The Good Parent, Short Story: Semifinalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest
Elixirs of Nature, Travel Essay: Honorable mention in the “Cultural Travel” category in the 2019 North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition published in The LA Review of Books
Elixirs of Nature, Travel Essay: Honorable mention in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing
Without Limits, Novel: An excerpt from my sci-fi novel was included in the Extreme Imagination book of art, design and writing
Walkabout Love in China, Travel Essay: Gold in the “Love” category in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing, published in Perceptive Travel
Letters from Dad, Essay: Bronze in the “Travel and Healing” category in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing, published in Living Now Magazine
2018
Letters from Dad, Essay, Third place in the 2017 “Hard Times Contest” from The Writers’ Workshop
2017
The Hate Game, Essay: Honorable mention in the 2016 Memoirs Contest from The Writers’ Workshop, published in The Good Men Project
2014
Play, Screenplay: Finalist in the 2013 Acclaim Scripts Film Contest, a semifinalist in the 2013 Screenplay Festival contest, and a semifinalist in the 2013 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Contest