Creative Writing Awards

My debut novel, ANNA’S ENDLESSLY COLLAPSING STAR, will be published in Spring 2028 by Regal House Publishing as part of their Frontlist ‘28 season. Read more here.

ANNA’S ENDLESSLY COLLAPSING STAR was a finalist for the 2022 Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts and longlisted for the 2020 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. An excerpt “The Garden” was shortlisted for the 2015 RopeWalk Press Editor’s Fiction Chapbook Prize.

My personal essay “And Nobody Died That Day” won first prize in Memoir Magazine’s 2018 Essay Contest.

My story “Winter on the Island” was a finalist for RopeWalk Press’s 2014 short-short fiction prize.

SELECTED Fiction & POETRY Publications

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“The Lucky Ones,” short fiction, The Washington Writers Publishing House Anthology, This Is What America Looks Like. Print.

“The Eclipse,” short fiction, Agave Magazine. Print.

“Ode to Conversions” poem, Stymie Magazine. Print and online.

“Inside the Melee,” short fiction, The Nassau Review. Print.

“Jules of the Red Lips,” short fiction, SNReview. Online.

“Lie Next to Me,” poem, Penhead Press. Online.

“They Almost Asked Us Back,” poem, Iris. Online.