Awards:
Winner, Gambling the Aisle's 2019 Chapbook Prize for Turnpike Winner, descant's 2018 Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Balance 2nd Place winner, Glimmer Train Family Matters 2018 for Boy Strangling Goose Runner up, Florida Review's Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook award for Mass Pike Quartet Winner, 2016 Solstice Short Fiction Award for Cat Calls Finalist, Scenic Routes, 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction (collection) Finalist, Nag's Head--Stories, 2015 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, sponsored by Snake Nation Press 1st Place, 2015 Rubery Book Award, for Still Life, now anthologized in Still Life, available in print at Amazon 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Still Life, appearing in Superstition review online. 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Yodeling for Life, appearing in fall, 2014 issue of Nashville Review 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Cherish the Muffin Top, appearing in Houdini, 2014 issue of Literary Orphans. Finalist, 2013 Rick Demarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, for Annabelle's Children Finalist, June, 2014, Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for Roanoke Winner, Emrys Journal, December, 2013, Sue Lile Inman Fiction award for Nuzzi Great-Grandpa
Finalist, September, 2013, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for This Is Not a Confession
Finalist, August, 2013, Glimmer Train Fiction Open Award for The Wild Pandas of Chincoteague
Finalist, June, 2013, Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for Annabelle's Children
Finalist, May, 2013, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for Knothole
Pushcart Prize Nominee for An Evening with Willie Freeze in spring 2012 Baltimore Review; also nominated for 2013 storySouth Million Writers award
Finalist, summer 2012, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Game Farm and Other Stories 2012 storySouth Million Writers award nomination for T'ings. Finalist, summer 2011, Reynolds Price Fiction Award given by Salem College Center for Women Writers for Shame Winner, summer 2011 New South short fiction award for Who's Akela Winner, spring 2011, Gulf Stream Magazine short fiction award for Svidrigaylov's Dream Pushcart Prize Nominee for Interstate Nocturne in fall 2010 Tertulia Magazine Finalist, 2010, Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award for a book length collection Finalist, 2010, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts for Terrorist Honorable Mention, 2010, Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest for East on West I-90 Finalist, January 2010, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for Old Yeller Finalist, October 2009, Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for Attack of the Snow Angels Winner, 1997, A.E. Coppard Prize for the Long Story, White Eagle Coffee Store Press for Among the Marigolds Workshops:
New York State Summer Writers Institute, 2010, Fiction Master Class Workshop with Rick Moody |