FICTION:

1. Winner, Creative Challenge, Typishly, 2018.

“The Romance of Ruins,” Typishly, Typishly.com, February 2018. (Click on the bolded title to read.)

2. Second Place, Tuscany Prize for Fiction, 2013.

“Lily on the Bus,” What World Is This? And Other Stories, Tuscany Press, 2014. Available for purchase at Amazon.com

3. Honorable Mention, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Contest, 2010.

“Soup,” May 2010.

4. Honorable Mention, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Contest, 2009.

“Via Pergolesi, Milan,” May 2009.

Really cool BLOG awards:

1. FRESHLY PRESSED:

After the Revolution, Part II, was voted a top of the blog award by WordPress, on June 23, 2011, and went viral, picking up thousands of views.

After the Revolution, Part II

(Freshly Pressed, June 23, 2011, Best of the WordPress Blogs)

Congratulations, Natalia, for being picked to appear on the WordPress front page this morning.  “Freshly Pressed: The best of 372,209 bloggers, 398,202 new posts, 406,510 comments, & 99,534,075 words posted today on WordPress.com.”

2. VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD

Thanks to ebdenart for this award! Here’s the link to ebdenart’s website. Please visit!

Here is the link to some interesting (more or less!) things about me.

3. DRAGON’S LOYALTY AWARD

This award comes from Valentina Cirasola at Home Designs Master. Thanks Valentina!

4. BLOG OF THE YEAR AWARD

Thanks to the lovely Valentina Cirisola, an Italian expat living in sunny California and inimitable blogger at Valentina Designs, I have been awarded the aforementioned prize. THANKS, Valentina, I am so thrilled and honored to have been one of your picks.