She has won numerous awards and been published widely. Including, ”Dirk Snigby's Guide to the Afterlife” in Next Stop Hollywood, St. Martin's Press, and Now Write! Tarcher/Penguin, 2012 She’s been the recipient of biological research and art grants, has been represented by LACMA sales & rental gallery, and will be artist in resident at the museum of Master Arts in Bermuda in 2015.  She has painted murals in LA California and Spain, worked with children in Bosnia, crocodiles in Mexico, frogs in Puerto Rico, egrets in Bali, mushrooms in Montana, archaeologists in Spain and butterflies in South Central Los Angeles. In her spare time she gardens and raises egrets,  kittens or whatever small creatures happen her way.