RECOGNITIONS
2021
SEMI-FINALIST, William Van Wert Short Fiction Award
Excerpt — A Truer Life
SEMI-FINALIST, James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest
Novel — A Truer Life
2019
FINALIST, Faulkner Festival Competition
Novel – A Truer Life
2017
SHORT LIST, Petrichor Audio Magazine
Short Story – “Valentine”
2014
Third Annual Yale Writer’s Conference
2013
FINALIST, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition
Novel-in-Progress — Painting Her Life
SHORT LIST, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition in 3 categories:
Novel — A Day Called Yesterday
Memoir — Riding the Rapids
Short Story — “The Bridge”
FINALIST, Nilsen Literary Prize
First Novel – A Day Called Yesterday
SEMI-FINALIST, New Millennium Writings Contest
Fiction — “The Bridge”
2012
HONORABLE MENTION, Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest
Memoir — “Drowning Girl”
LONG LIST, Fish
Inaugural Short Memoir Prize — “Drowning Girl”
1999
SEMI-FINALIST, New Millennium Writings Awards
Nonfiction — “The Self-Portrait”
SECOND PLACE, Iowa Literary Awards
Nonfiction — “Lost Keys”
HONORABLE MENTION, Jack London Writing Contest
Nonfiction — “Prologue” to My Father and Me
1998
FINALIST, New Letters Literary Awards
Nonfiction — My Father and Me (excerpt)
1997
FIRST PLACE, California Writers Club
Nonfiction — “I Belong to the Sky”