Awards and Recognition

• FIRST PLACE WINNER - "Confessions from the Gene Pool," Byline's Advice for Beginning Writers Contest, 2003.

• "GOOSE FEATHERS" -  published in the billioneth issue of Highlights for Children, August 2006. A special gold-embossed commemorative issue along with the first 1946 issue of Highlights, is now part of permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

                      Cover by Karen Lee                                              Illustration by David Galchutt

• REBUS OF THE YEAR - "Hands," Highlights, December 2006.

• HARRIET TUBMAN: HERO OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD -  One of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2008.

• "AUTHOR HONORED BY NATIONAL MAGAZINE," Mountain Democrat, July 2007.

• "LORI MORTENSEN ANSWERS THREE QUESTIONS," by Anastasia Suen at Anastasia Suen's Blog, Children's Book Biz News, January 10, 2008.