Honors

♦ LitHub’s 100 Most Notable Books of 2025 for Don’t Take This the Wrong Way

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2025 for “Instead of Doing Something Juvenile, Like Slashing Your Tires, After You Dumped Me for Deanna Vcario,” published in Claudine,; “A Series of Lukes,” published in New World Writing,;“The Thing People Know About Someone Before They Are Formally Introduced,” published in Ruby,; and “A Stranger in My Home,” published in Ilanot Review.

♦ Nominated for Best Microfictions 2025 for and“The Thing People Know About Someone Before They Are Formally Introduced,” published in Ruby

♦ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 12 times:

-2025 for “Subject: We Are All Appalled” published in Milk Candy Review, and “The Thing People Know About Someone Before They Are Formally Introduced,” published in Ruby 
-2024 for “Cycle,” published in Ruby, and “Rhinoceroses,” published in JMWW

-2023 for “Burying the Body,” published in JMWW
-2022 for “My Stepmother’s Presents,” published in Gone Lawn, and for “Come, Come,” published in New Flash Fiction Review
-2018 for “Impulse Control,” published in JMWW
-2017 for “Pop Goes the Weasel,” published in Moon City Review
-2016 for “Shingles,” published in Arroyo Literary Review
-2015 for “What Shall We Do Now that the Museums Are Closed and Paris Is Blue?,” published in Parcel Magazine, and “This Much,” published in Arroyo Literary Review

♦ Nominated for Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 for and“The Thing People Know About Someone Before They Are Formally Introduced,” and “What Monica’s Husband Doesn’t Understand,” published in Ruby

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2025 for “The Curse,” published in Ghost Parachute

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2025 for “Boomerang,” published in Monkeybicycle

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2024 for “The Curse,” published in Ghost Parachute

♦Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2024 for “Pie Chart,” published in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

♦Shortlist for Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize 2023

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2023 for “Like My Grandmother’s China,” published in Bending Genres

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2022 for “Mirror Face,” published in The Citron Review

♦ Nominated for Best Microfictions 2022 for “Chinese Food and Donuts,” published in Monkeybicycle, and “Garbage,” published in Trampset

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2022 for “Deluxe Scrabble,” published in Cutleaf

♦Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2022 for “Strawberry Balsamic Donut,” published in Superstition Review

♦ Nominated for Best Microfictions 2021 for “Performance Review,” published in Milk Candy Review, “Poo on You,” published in Cheap Pop, and “Tuesday Night Book Club,” published in Nurture Literary

♦Finalist for the Stillhouse Press experimental writing contest 2021

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2021 for “This Is How It Ends,” published in Cease, Cows

♦Winner of 100 Word Story Mini-Contest for Fractured Lit for “Comorbidity” 2021

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021 for “Distancing,” published in trampset, and “Cancel Culture,” published in Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine, and “Not Talking,” published in Ninth Letter

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2020 for “Ghosts-Turned-Blue,” published in Aquifier: The Florida Review Online

♦Finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize 2020

♦High Honorable Mention for the Stillhouse Press 2020 Short Story Contest

♦Finalist for The Journal‘s Non/Fiction Collection Prize 2020

♦Finalist for Split Lip Press’s story collection book prize 2020

♦Semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize 2020

♦Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2020 for “Useful Information,” published in SmokeLong Quarterly

♦Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2019 for “Surfaces,” published in BULL

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2019 for “Fitting,” published in BULL, and “Madlib,” published in Okay Donkey

♦ Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press) for “Madlib,” published in Okay Donkey

♦ Mythic Picnic pick of the month (March 2019) for the micro pair “Middle Ages” and “Battle Scars” in Wigleaf

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019 for “Madlib,” published in Okay Donkey, and “A Test I Knew I Could Pass,” published in Cagibi

♦ Runner-up for The Forge Literary Magazine Flash Fiction Competition 2018 for “Compromising”

♦ Nominated for Best Microfictions 2018 for “Madlib,” published in Okay Donkey

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2018 for “The Rascally Rabbit,” published in Cease, Cows

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018 for “Nepenthes,” published in decomP magazinE

♦ Moon City Short Fiction Award 2017

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2017 for “Daisy Chain,” published in New World Writing

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2017 for “Beaks,” published in East Bay Review

♦ Runner-up for Moon City Short Fiction Award 2016

♦ Gary Wilson Short Fiction Award (descant) 2016 for “Like Salt”

♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2017 for “How to Fall Out,” published in Atticus Review

♦ Nominated for Best of the Net 2016 for “Squirrel Beach,” published in Cleaver Magazine

♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2015 for “Buko,” published in Corium Magazine

♦ Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train 2013

♦ Finalist, Fiction Open Award, Glimmer Train 2012

♦ Honorable Mention, Short Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train 2012