Awards/Recognitions

  • The Fire This Time
    Selected as a featured 'snowflake in a blizzard,' week of December 7, 2020. https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/

  • Grant-in-Aid in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA

  • Sugaring Time – Stories of Thebesford County (short story collection)
    Finalist, Bakeless Publication Prize for Fiction sponsored by Middlebury College and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

  • In Zugzwang – Stories of Ilion Heights (short story collection)
    Finalist, Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize sponsored by University of Georgia Press and the St. Lawrence Book Award sponsored by Black Lawrence Press 

  • “In Zugzwang” 
    Finalist for Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction; Carve Magazine, Volume 7, No. 3, May 1, 2006; one of ten finalists out of more than 1,100 entries; http://www.carvezine.com/ 

  • “Natural Causes” 
    Third prize, Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction; published online February, 2006 at www.writingsite.com as featured story.

  • “Sugaring Time” 
    Finalist, Dana Short Fiction Award; Semi-finalist, Dana Portfolio Award

  • “Flying the Coop on the Wings of Birds that Don’t Fly” 
    The Florida Review Editor’s Award for Fiction
    Fall, ’03 issue (Volume 28, No. 2)

  • “Dragging the Line” 
    James Still Prize for Short Fiction
    Wind, Issue No. 92, 2004

  • “Talking Garbage Pickers’ Blues”  
    Winner, Midnight Sun Fiction Contest
    Permafrost, Volume 29, Summer 2007
    Finalist, The Journal Short Story Contest (The Ohio State University)
    Awarded partial fellowship to Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia

  • “The Cry of the Loon”
    Finalist, William Van Wert Fiction Competition sponsored by Hidden River Arts, Bala Cynwyd, PA

  • “Civilian Casualties” 
    Finalist, Dana Short Fiction Award; Semi-finalist, Dana Portfolio Award

  • “Paying the Bills” 
    Finalist, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize sponsored by Hunger Mountain
    Finalist, Dana Short Fiction Award; Semi-finalist, Dana Portfolio Award

  • “The Old Ways” 
    Honorable Mention, Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Awardsponsored by New Letters
    Finalist, C. Prescott Sobol Fiction Contest sponsored by The Cream City Review
    Finalist, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize sponsored by Hunger Mountain

  • “Still Life”
    Finalist, Dogwood Fiction Contest; Dogwood, Volume 8; Spring, 2008

  • “Buried Along with Her Name”
    Finalist, Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award sponsored by New Letters Fiction Contest 

  • “Stigma”
    Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, June, 2014

  • “Another Flight of Stairs”
    Lindenwood Review, Issue 4, 2014, Pushcart Prize nomination

  • “This Bird Has Flown”
    Border Crossing, Volume 5, Summer 2015, millionStory South Writers Award nomination

  • “Möbius Strip”
    2 Bridges Review, Volume 5, 2016, Pushcart Prize nomination