Topal's award-winning books are "Bed of Want," the 2007 Robert G. Cohen Prose Poetry Award and "Tattooed,"
winner of the Palettes and Quills International Book Contest. "In the Heaven of Never Before," was
published in 2008 by Moon Tide Press. She is also the recipient of the 2015 Briar Cliff Review Award. Topal's
5th collection, "In Order of Disappearance," was published in December, 2017, by the Pacific Coast Poetry
Series.