Awards, Affiliations, Media
- California Readers author of the month, September 2011
- Alameda County Library Lit Contest 2018. First place fiction; First place nonfiction
- Sandhill Press Literary Contest. Second place best first chapter of a novel 2019
- Judge, Next Generation Indies Awards, 2015-2023
- Judge ASJA health, science, and business articles, 2015, 2016, 2018
- NHK Interview as one of three experts on an episode of the documentary television series Science Histories shown on NHK TV, Japan’s public broadcasting network.