Awards

2025 | “Guardians” included as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2025

2025 | “Nocturne 11” appeared in Arrhythmia and nominated for Pushcart Prize

2024 | Monmouth University Graduate Creative Writing Award novel excerpt, Attachments

2023 | Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest Shortlist for novel Play, Rewind

2022 | Craft’s First Chapter Contest Finalist for novel Play, Rewind

2020 | “Breaking & Entering,” short story in Best of Our Stories Volume VI

2017 | Carve Magazine’s One to Watch for short story “Turnkey” 

2013 | Harpur Palate’s John Gardner Award for short story “Carmine’s War”