Her honors include grants and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Meet the Composer, residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Ragdale Foundation, and awards and commissions from the National Flute Association, the International League of Women Composers, Northwestern University and others.

Her works are performed throughout the United States and Europe and have been featured at the International Alliance for Women in Music Conference in London and the Donne in Musica Festival in Fiuggi, Italy, as well as on the Public Broadcasting Network, at the National Flute Association Conventions, the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Symphony Center in Chicago and at Carnegie Hall.

Her music is available on compact disc through Master Musicians Collective and OPUS ONE Recordings. Her work for orchestra, Luminaria, performed by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, will be released by Master Musicians Collective in 2001. Two of her performance pieces, After the History and Scat/Rap Counterpoint, are available on video. Her music is published by Associated Music Publishers and the Needham Publishing Company.