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STORIES

  • "House Full of Feasting," THE CINCINNATI REVIEW Issue 13.2, 2017.
  • "Slip," WHAT HAPPENED HERE: Year One at Paper Cuts JP, 2016.
  • "Criminal Finally," The Drum, 2016. 
  • "The True End to All Sad Times," MUD SEASON REVIEW, 2016.
  • "But for Herr Hitler," THE CINCINNATI REVIEW, 2015. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize.)
  • "Blackberry Winter," BRIDGE EIGHT, 2015.
  • "Take the Car, Take the Girl," CARVE MAGAZINE, 2015.
  • "Rabbit's Foot," GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW,  2015.
  • "Yellow Dock," WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, 2015.
  • "Cold Snap," THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY  2015.
  • "Cliff Ordeal," COPPER NICKEL,  2013.
  • "For Swimmers," GARGOYLE, 2012.
  • "Slip," AMERICAN FICTION: BEST UNPUBLISHED STORIES BY EMERGING WRITERS, Vol. 12/  New Rivers Press, 2012.
  • "The Amazing Discovery and Natural History of Carlsbad Caverns," THE COMMON, 2012.
  • "No Name Creek," THE MALAHAT REVIEW, 2011.
  • "Reptile House," NASHVILLE REVIEW, 2011.


BOOK AWARDS:

  • Pity the Beast, Longlisted, Reading the West, 2/2022.
  • Reptile House, Winner of the BOA Fiction Prize. BOA Editions, 2013.
  • Reptile House, Finalist, The Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize, 2012.
  • Reptile House, Finalist, The Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize, 2011.


STORY AWARDS

 

  • Winner, "Alter Ego" Fiction Prize, The Drum and Grubstreet.
  • Nominated for Pushcart Prize, "But for Herr Hitler," THE CINCINNATI REVIEW, 2015.
  • Finalist, Robert and Adele Schiff Awards for the THE CINCINNATI REVIEW, 2014, "But for Herr Hitler."
  • Finalist, Robert and Adele Schiff Awards for the THE CINCINNATI REVIEW, 2014, "Judas Cradle."
  • Honorable Mention, Robert and Adele Schiff Awards for the THE CINCINNATI REVIEW,  2014, "True Carnivores."
  • Co-Winner of The End is Nigh Story Prize for the THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY, for "Cold Snap." 
  • Finalist, Copper Nickel Fiction Prize Fiction Prize, 2012, for "Cliff Ordeal."
  • Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings, 2012, for "No Name Creek."
  • Finalist, American Fiction Prize: New Rivers Press, 2011, for "Slip." 
  • Honorable Mention, Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award, May 2011, for "Slip." 
  • Winner, The Cara Memorial Award for Fiction, 2010, for "The Amazing Discovery and Natural History of Carlsbad Caverns."
  • Honorable Mention, The Delaney Fellowship for Fiction, 2010, for "The Amazing Discovery and Natural History of Carlsbad Caverns," 2010
  • Winner, The Sydney Robertson McLean Prize for Fiction, May 1987, for "Beef Jerky."
  • Winner, Barbara Benson Prize, 1987


Book Reviews and Other Writing

  • "Endangered Species," THE CINCINNATI REVIEW, Fall 2012, review of Kate Bernheimer's My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me