Awards

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Veronica's writing about travel, health, and fiction has been recognized nationally and internationally in several competitions.

• Silver Prize Culture and Ideas Category in Travelers’ Tales 2011 Solas Awards for "Becoming Dostoyevsky in St. Petersburg"
• Bronze Prize Cruise Category in Travelers’ Tales 2011 Solas Awards for "Death and Life on the Nile"
• Finalist in Transitions Abroad 2008 Narrative Travel Writing Competition for "Guatemala City: The Aftermath of Civil War"

• First Place, American Association of Academic Psychiatry 2005 Creative Writing Competition for the short story "Acoustics" published in the journal Academic Psychiatry in Jan-Feb 2006

• National Press Foundation Fellowship in Cancer Reporting. March 2020
• American Society for Journalists and Authors 2013 Early Career Scholarship. One of ten scholarship recipients selected from a nationwide pool to attend the ASJA 2013 conference