Publications and Awards

My poetry has appeared in Earth’s Daughters, Encore Prize Poems, Pooled Ink, Pilgrimage Journal, Tulip Tree Review and Progenitor and other journals, anthologies and in ekphrastic shows and on radio shows.

In 2023 my chapbook, The Language of Crows, won the Fledge Chapbook Prize from Middle Creek Press. In 2024 I received an Honorable Mention in the Cantor Prize contest. Two of my poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 2023 and 2024.

In 2025 my poems were short-listed for the Women Writers Contest by Kelsay Books, and in 2022 my chapbook, Numinous Journeys, was a finalist for the Jewish-American Women Writers Contest from Small Harbor Press.

My poems have received awards from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Columbine Poets of Colorado, Northern Colorado Writers, and have won places in the Windsor Art and Poetry Show and the Loveland TAAP-2D show.

Lorrie photo 2021

Thank you to the following publications and editors:

  • Encore Prize Poems, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2019 to 2026, poems, including “Borders and Borderlines” – Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2023
  • Gut Punch Literary Journal: “Summer School, Ukraine,” “Sowing Sunflowers in Ukraine,” “Another Late-Night Phone Call,” 2026
  • Sunflowers Rising: Poets for Peace: “Summer School, Ukraine,” 2025
  • Cantor Prize Honorable Mention – “Why I Go Fishing,” 2025
  • Columbine Poets of Colorado, 2018 – 2026, multiple annual awards
  • Twenty Bellows Press: Welcoming the Muse: “Hummingbird Pas de Deux,” and “Family Photograph, 1914,” 2024
  • TAAP-2D Art & Ekphrastic Poetry Show, winner, “Water Lilies at Nymph Lake,” 2024
  • Plant-Human Quarterly, The Otherwise Collective: “September Morning” and “The Seed’s Prayer,” 2023
  • Middle Creek Press: The Mountain: “Never the Same River Twice,” 2023
  • Small Harbor Press: Jewish-American Women’s Chapbook Prize, finalist for “Numinous Journeys,” 2022
  • San Miguel Poetry Sala: “What Women Can Do,” “What We Are Made Of,” 2022
  • Loveland Museum & Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, Reverberations: a poetic response to African American art, “Heresy and Faith,” 2021
  • Magpies: A Zoem Anthology, “Flood,” Fort Collins, Colorado, 2021
  • The Red Shawl: Art and Poetry Celebrating Women’s Suffrage, “South Pass City,” Loveland Museum & Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, 2019
  • Wolverine Farm Publishing, Broadside contest, Finalist, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2018
  • Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, Colorado, with photographer Bob Campagna: How the Light Gets In: “The Choice,” 2017
  • Boardwalk Gallery, Reflections: “Upon Reflection,” Windsor, Colorado, 2017
  • Boardwalk Gallery, The Paths We Take: “Creation,” Windsor, Colorado, 2016
  • Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, Colorado with artist Amy Vialpando, Line Casting, “The Wing Does its Work,” 2016
  • Denver Ziggies Poetry Festival, named Poet of the Year, 2014-2015
  • Green Fuse Press: Women of the Wisdom Years Award – winner and chapbook publication, Holding: from Shtetl to Santa, Poetry and Prose, 2013

Book Editing

RISE: An Anthology of Change, Northern Colorado Writers, 2019
(Winner, Colorado Book Award)

Exception/All Anthology, Writing Heights Writers Association, 2023

Chiaroscuro: An Anthology of Virtue and Vice, Northern Colorado Writers, 2021

Mountains, Myths and Memories: a Poetry Anthology, Wolfe Unlimited Publication, 2017

Going Deeper Anthology, with Kurtis Tilley, Teahouse Poets, 2017