Collection Honors
2023
Finalist
Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Collection Prize
2023
Long List
Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize
2022
Finalist
Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize
2022
Finalist
Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
2022
Short List
The Masters Review Chapbook Open
2018
Finalist
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Story Honors
2023
Selection
First appeared in Pithead Chapel
2020
Selection
Nominated by Flash Flood Journal
2019
Nominee
Pushcart Prize
2018
1st Prize
Kelly Barnhill Flash Fiction Prize
Pasarea Paradisului (Birds of Paradise)
2018
3rd Prize
Bridport Prize Flash Fiction Contest
What Real Men Wish They Dreamed
2018
Nominee
Best Microfictions
Why Shit Is Still Like This Around Here & Probably Always Will Be
Nominated by Bath Flash Fiction Award
2018
3rd Prize
Why Shit Is Still Like This Around Here & Probably Always Will Be
2018
Finalist
SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction
2017
1st Prize
Columbia Journal Winter Fiction Contest
Extra Quiet
Selected by Roxane Gay
2017
Finalist
Hemingway Foundation's Hemingway Shorts Contest
Op. 37, No. 1
2017
Finalist
Exit/b (Terminate Script)
2016
Finalist
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award
2015
1st Prize
Dromineer Literary Festival Flash Fiction Award
Peleliu
2014
Nominee
Pushcart Prize
The Way We Carried Ourselves
Nominated by Southword Journal (Ireland)
2013
1st Prize
The Way We Carried Ourselves
2005
Nominee
Best New American Voices
One Girl
Nominated by Northwestern University's M.A. in Creative Writing
Short Lists & Long Lists
2019
Bath Flash Fiction Award
2018
Bridport Prize
2018
Bath Flash Fiction Awards
2017
Bath Flash Fiction Award
If I Should Wash Myself with Snow
2017
Bath Flash Fiction Award
April When They Woo
2016
Bath Short Story Award
2015
Bath Flash Fiction Award
Wingspan (as Animals)
2015
Bath Flash Fiction Award
True Story (as What Was True)
2015
Fish Short Story Award
Other Honors
2022
Individual Artist Grant
Illinois Arts Council Agency
2020
Guest Instructor
Rutgers Camden MFA
2019
Medaille College
2018
SmokeLong Quarterly
2018
AWP Writer-in-Writer Mentorship Program
(Mentor: Pamela Erens)
2017
Susannah McCorkle Scholarship in Fiction
Sewanee Writers' Conference
2016
Merit Scholarship
Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing
2015
Peter Taylor Fellowship
Kenyon Review Summer Writers' Workshop
2007
Distinguished Thesis Award
Northwestern University's M.A. in Creative Writing