Awards and Recognitions

		Day of the Dog-tooth Violets New Muse Award winner for first-time fiction Selected as part of the Literary Press Group’s Almost Famous campaign. Long-listed for the 2001 Re-Lit Novel Award Included in 2002 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association promotion: Books for the Summer from Atlantic Canada.

		The Roads of Go Home Lake Winner of the 2002 Muskoka Novel Marathon Winner of a 2003 Works In Progress, Ontario Arts Council Grant. Included in the Association of Book Publishers of BC Aboriginal Catalogue

		Dear Jo Winner of the 2003 Muskoka Novel Marathon Voted Best of the Year 2007 by Resource Links Long-listed for the Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award 2007 Voted one of the Ontario Library Associations Best Bets for 2007 Winner of the 2009 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award Starred selection in the Canadian Children's Book Centre's annual issue of Best Books for Kids and Teens 2008 (under Young Adult fiction) Winner of the 2009 Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan) Nominated for the 2010 New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award Winner of the 2009/2010 Red Cedar Award for fiction (British Columbia)

		Where Lives Take Root Included in the Association of Book Publishers of BC Aboriginal Catalogue Included in the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario First Nations Catalogue of Books 2009 and On-line First Nations Catalogue of Books

		They Called Me Red Included in the Canadian Children's Book Centre's annual issue of Best Books for Kids and Teens 2009 (under Young Adult fiction) Nominated for a Sasketchewan Young Reader's Choice Award - Snow Willow Award 2010
		The Better Deal (Short Story) Second Place: Toronto Star Short Story Contest 2004