Recognition


Lakefly Writing Contest: 3rd Place Winner for "Landing" in the Short Story category.  (2021)

Ellen Hunnicut Prize:  Bring Me Water Until I Drown - a novel. The contest recognizes an unpublished novel or novella by a UWM student.  (2017)

Wladyslaw Cieszynski Literary Prize Runner-up:  for "Stained with Lime" published in Cimarron Review, Issue 195, Spring 2016. Contest recognizes a previously published work, poetry, fiction, or nonfiction by a UWM student. (2017)

Pushcart nomination for "Stained with Lime." Cimarron Review, Issue 195. (2016)

Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School. (2016)

Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Alternate: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School. (2016)

Iowa Writer's House workshop scholarship: Iowa City, IA. (2016)

Poetry Moves Poetry Contest Winner: "Pilgrimage, 1988." Sponsored by Printed Matter Vancouver, C-Tran, and Arts of Clark County. (2015)

Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School. (2015)

Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front. Winner of the Bronze Feather - Recommended Read Award in Creative Nonfiction from the League of Utah Writers. (2015)

Student Success Award: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For dedication to student academic success as a teacher. (2014)

Ellen Hunnicut Prize for an excerpt from The Wildish Boys - a novel. The contest recognizes an unpublished novel or novella by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student.  (2014)

Wladyslaw Cieszynski Literary Prize for "Seemingly Unrelated Events" published in december, V24, Dec. 2013. Contest recognizes a previously published work, poetry, fiction, or nonfiction by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student. (2014)

James A. Sappenfield Fellowship: for academic excellence by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate student. Recipients are selected by English Department faculty within each graduate plan: Literature and Cultural Theory; Rhetoric and Composition; Creative Writing; Professional Writing; and Media, Cinema and Digital Studies. (2014)

Pushcart nomination for "Seemingly Unrelated Events." december, Vol 24. (2013)

Chancellor's Award: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English Department, PhD Creative Writing program. (2013)

First Quarterly Review in Short Fiction: Editors' Choice Award for "Thicker Than Water." Sponsored by Bewildering Stories. (2008)

Narrative Prose Poem Contest: Editor's Choice Award for "Black Bird" in 2007 Very Short Story category. Sponsored by Lunch Hour Stories Magazine (2008) 

Whidbey Writers Student Choice Award: "Black Bird." (2007).

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