Honors & Awards
Honorable Mention for "Be Here Now"
Glimmer Train Stories Family Matters Contest, June 2019
First Runner-Up for "A Confusion"
New Letters Robert Day Awards, September 2018
Fellowship, May 2018
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Top-Four Finalist for After the Party (story collection)
Elixir Press Fiction Award, October 2018
Semi-Finalist (top ten) for After the Party (story collection)
Iowa Short Fiction Award, January 2018
Honorable Mention for "Invitation"
Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open Contest, November 2017
Semi-finalist for "Iceberg"
American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize, September 2017
Tobias Wolff Award for "Escape Artist"
Bellingham Review, June 2017
Top Ten Finalist for After the Party (story collection)
Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, May 2017
Honorable Mention for "A Confusion"
Glimmer Train Stories, Family Matters Contest, February 2017
Honorable Mention for "Alamo"
Glimmer Train Stories, Family Matters Contest, May 2015
Finalist for"Alamo"
Chattahoochee Review, Lamar York Prize for Fiction, February 2015
Rona Jaffe Foundation Bread Loaf Fiction Scholarship 2013
Top 25 Finalist for "Fearless"
Glimmer Train Stories, Fiction Open Contest, June 2013
Honorable Mention for "Tabor Lake, 1993"
Glimmer Train Stories, Fiction Open Contest, September 2012
Honorable Mention for "Tabor Lake, 1993"
The Cincinnati Review, Robert and Adele Schiff Prize
Semi-Finalist for "Tabor Lake, 1993"
Crazyhorse Fiction Prize judged by Joyce Carol Oates, Spring 2012
First Runner-Up for "Reclining Bacchante"
StoryQuarterly, Short Fiction Contest judged by Karen Russell, Winter 2012
First Place for "Wilderness of Ghosts"
Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open Contest, September 2011
Finalist for "No One Sleeps"
Black Warrior Review/SLS Contest judged by Mary Gaitskill, Spring 2012
Finalist for "Generosity in Hell"
New Letters, Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award, Summer 2011
Honorable Mention for "Learning the Language"
Glimmer TrainStories, Fiction Open Contest, 2009
Notable Story of 2008 for "Safekeeping"
storySouth Million Writers Award, 2008
Artist's Grants
Vermont Studio Center, 2012, 2017