♦ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 7 times:
-2022 for “My Stepmother’s Presents,” published in Gone Lawn
-2021 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 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
♦Semi-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
♦Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2020 for “Useful Information,” published in SmokeLong Quarterly
♦Finalist for Split Lip Press’s story collection book prize 2020
♦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
♦ Runner-up for The Forge Literary Magazine Flash Fiction Competition 2018 for “Compromising”
♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019 for “Madlib,” published in Okay Donkey, and “A Test I Knew I Could Pass,” published in Cagibi
♦ 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
♦ Moon City Short Fiction Award 2017
♦ Longlisted for Wigleaf‘s Top Fifty 2017 for “Daisy Chain,” published in New World Writing
♦ Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018 for “Nepenthes,” published in decomP magazinE
♦Finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize 2020
♦ 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