Honors and Awards
Shortlisted / The Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction / 2023
Honorable Mention / 48th New Millennium Writing Awards / New Millennium Writings / 2019
Pushcart Nomination /
The Normal School / 2018
Featured Reader /
Launch Ceremony The Tusculum Review / Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN / Fall 2018
Finalist /
Robert Day Award For Fiction / New Letters Magazine / 2018
Finalist / New South Prose Contest / New South Journal / 2018
Semi-Finalist /
Faulkner-Wisdom Competition / The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society 2018
Finalist /
Tucson Festival Of Books Literary Awards competition /
2017
Finalist /
Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest / Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts / 2017
Semi-Finalist /
American Short Fiction Prize / American Short Fiction / 2017
Semi-Finalist /
Machigonne Fiction Contest / The New Guard Anthology / 2017
Semi-Finalist /
Raymond Carver Short Story Contest / Carve Magazine / 2017
Shortlisted /
Fish Publishing Short Story Prize / 2017
Finalist / Arts & Letters Fiction Prize / Arts & Letters Journal / 2016
Semi-Finalist /
The Katherine Anne Porter Prize For Fiction / Nimrod International Journal / 2016
Semi-Finalist /
Graywolf Prize For Best Novel Excerpt Of An Emerging Writer / Summer Literary Seminars / 2015
Fellowship / Summer Literary Seminars / 2012
Shortlisted /
Fish Publishing Short Story Prize / 2010
Finalist / Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award / 2010
Finalist / David Nathan Meyerson Prize For Fiction / Southwest Review / 2010
Honorable Mention /
The Ledge Fiction Awards Competition / The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine / 2009