Accolades

Awards and Distinctions

October, quarter-finalist for 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition

“One Swift Effort,” honorable mention, 2019, 47th New Millennium Writing Awards

“Many and Many a Year Ago,” winner, 2019 Norton Girault Literary Prize in Fiction from Barely South Review

“Sun on Snow on Mountains,” finalist, 2019 Great Midwest Writing Contest, Midwest Review

Pepper’s Ghostfinalist, 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Contemporary Fiction

Appearances

2016

Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM

Page 1, Albuquerque, NM

Chaucer’s, Santa Barbara, CA

Star Line Books, Chattanooga, TN

BookExpo America/BookCon, Chicago, IL

2015

North American Review Bicentennial Celebration, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

2013

Bridgewater International Literature Festival, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA

2012

40th Annual Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Audio

Authors Talk, Superstition Review, 2018 (mp3, 6 mins.)

“Drop Off,” Sandy River Review, 2015 (mp3, 5 mins.)

Interviews

Thoughtful Dog, 2017

Sequestrum, 2016

Rum Punch Press, 2015