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- 2004 Most Dramatic
personality award
- Recipient of
the 2004 Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship.
Topic: "Rootabaga Trails in Black and White."
- Recipient of
2000 Frank Basile Emerging Stories Grant in support of Stories, Inc.
- Recipient of
2000 Hoosier History Through Stories Grant in support of Indiana Historical
Society and also Stories, Inc.
- Recipient of
1999 International Studies Summer Institute at Indiana University-
Bloomington.
- Recipient of
Celebrate Literacy Award from International Reading Association.
- Winner of the
Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Grant for Storytelling.
- Presented for
the Reading Association of Ireland at St. Patrick's College, Dublin,
Ireland.
- Featured storyteller
at the National Scottish Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Tours Scottish,
Irish, and English schools yearly as an American storyteller.
- Storyteller
for Young Audiences of America.
- Storyteller
for Cultural Arts program with Indiana State Parks
- Featured storyteller
throughout Midwest festivals.
- Keynoter at
major conferences throughout the US. and British Isles.
- Author of All
Roads Lead Home.
- Regular contributor
to The Story Tree, a National Public Radio Affiliate.
- Received M.S.
in Reading from Indiana University.
- Storytelling
Instructor at Indiana-Purdue University.
- Children's
Literature Instructor at Tri-State University.
- Reviewer of
children's literature for a Mid-Western University.
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