2011 Solas Silver Award, Best Women’s Travel Writing, “My Dinner with Terrorists.”

2010: Solas Gold Award, Best Women’s Travel Writing, “At Home in Afghanistan.”

BATW Best Bronze, Internet Travel, “A Visit to Palau.”

Writer’s Digest, Magazine Feature Article, “Maya Mysteries Revealed”

2008: BATW Best Gold Web Site

BATW Best Bronze, Essay in an anthology, “Dancing on the Wine Dark Sea.”

2007: Solas Gold Award, Best Love Story on the Road, “The Trout Baron.”

2005 BATW Silver Award, Afghan Woman in Window

Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities grants

Bronze Award for “Dancing on the Wine Dark Sea” in Greece: A Love Story.

This site (dianelebow.com) just won the 2008 BATW Travel Writer Website Gold Award.

Judges’ comment: “This website pulled me in further and further.”

Travelers’ Tales’ Solas Awards Gold Winner, March 1, 2007 for The Best Account of Love or Romance on the Road: “The Trout Baron.”

Winner of Bay Area Travel Writers Silver Award 2005 for photo of Afghan woman looking out of her window above Kabul, Afghanistan.Best Feature Article Award, California Federation of Teachers, “Visit to Afghanistan,” in The Advocate, 2003.

Ford Foundation Grant

National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Faces of the World: photos selected for exhibition, S.F., 2005