Awards & Honors

Two-time finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Fiction. 2025

Two-time Long listed for the Fish Short Story Award. 2025

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Moulin e Nef Writer-in-Residence. 2025

Honorable Mention for the Writer’s Digest 93rd Annual Personal Essay Award. 2024

Finalist for the Launch Pad Prose Writing Competition. 2024

Finalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. 2023

Semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. 2023

Quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. 2023

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) 50th Year Fellow in Fiction. 2023

Runner-up for The Florida Review Editor’s Choice Award in Fiction. 2022

Finalist for the Tucson Literary Festival Fiction Award. 2022

Semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. 2022

Three-time Finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction from The Bellingham Review. 2022

Runner-up for the ScreenCraft Short Story Award. 2021

Semifinalist for the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. 2021

Semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Competition. 2020

Runner-up for the Tennessee Williams SAS Fiction Award. 2019

Finalist and Honorable Mention for the Glimmer Train Short Short Story Award. 2018

Lambda Literary Fiction Writer-in-Residence. 2018

Lambda Literary Fiction Fellow. 2017

Finalist and Honorable Mention for the Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Award. 2015