Awards & Degrees
WINNER, SOLSTICE MAGAZINE SUMMER CONTEST, Judged by Phillip Lopate, Essay, Live Find
WINNER, FAULKNER WISDOM COMPETITION 2018 - Runner Up, Nonfiction Book, Farm Girl
MEMOIR MAGAZINE #METOO CONTEST
2rd Place Winner, Essay, Rise
WRITERS AT WORK COMPETITION, 2018
Finalist, Essay, The Inscribed
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE, 2017
TUSCON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS LITERARY AWARDS, 2018
Finalist, Essay, The Inscribed
WINNER, FAULKNER WISDOM COMPETITION 2017
Essay - Inheritance
THE PINCH JOURNAL, PINCH LITERARY REVIEW, 2016
Finalist - Inheritance
THE CINCINNATI REVIEW SUMMER CONTEST 2017
Finalist, Essay- Live Find
DECEMBER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER AWARDS 2017
Finalist, Essay - The Real Estate
THE RIVER STYX SCHLAFLY BEER MICRO FICTION CONTEST, 2017
Semi Finalist - Heat Lightning
TUSCON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS LITERARY AWARDS, 2017
Semi-Finalist, Essay, The Coolest Monsters
THE AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS FULL LENGTH NONFICTION CONTEST, 2016
Finalist - The Coolest Monsters
HIPPOCRATES AWARDS, OPEN CATEGORY, 2016
Poem, Harvest
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
January 2018, MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Creative Nonfiction.
2015- CUTTHROAT JOURNAL'S BARRY LOPEZ CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE
Semi-finalist - The Fox
2011 BREAD LOAF WRITING CONFERENCE, poetry
DEAR BILLY THE KID - 2010
Runner up in the Indiana Review's 1/2K Contest
2010 BFA IN CREATIVE WRITING, GODDARD COLLEGE
2004 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR IN THE ARTS
2004 ARTS GOLD WINNER
INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY
2004 SCHOLASTIC New York Times James B. Reston Portfolio Silver Award in Nonfiction
2004 SCHOLASTIC National Gold Key Award,
Personal Essay
INTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP, Fiction
2002 SCHOLASTIC National Gold Key Award,
Short Story, A Dead Woman's Hairpins
Publications
ON RUNNING - 2018
Creative Nonfiction Magazine: True Story Editions
THE FLOOD - 2018
Aquifer: The Florida Review Online
A MEMORY OF A DELIBERATE THING I SAID ONCE TO MY SKIN - 2018, The Threepenny Review
POLISH - 2018 forthcoming
Hotel Amerika
MUSE - 2018
New South
THE COOLEST MONSTERS, a book of essays
THE LIE - 2018
The Tishman Review
REYKJAVIK INK - 2017
Punctuate Magazine, Collaborative Icelandic Travel Essay
LETTERS TO MY SIBLINGS IN A TIME OF APOCALYPSE - 2017
The Offbeat
THE COOLEST MONSTERS - 2017
Terrene
NOVEMBER, SC - 2016
Stoneslide Corrective
THE MUSIC I KNEW - 2016
The Tishman Review
THE OPAL THIEVES - 2016
Blue River Journal
THE WILDERNESS - 2016
The Open Bar at Tin House
IN AND OUT - 2016
Skirt! Magazine
MY WRONG LOVE STORY - 2016
3216 Review
LESSONS - 2016
Carte Blanche
PASTORAL SUITE, NOCTURNE - 2011
The Greensboro Review
THE DEER HUNTER - 2010
The Georgetown Review, Runner Up in Annual Poetry Contest
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS -2010
Amoskeag
MOTHER - 2010
River Poets Journal
TWO VISITS TO THE LARGEST SITKA SPRUCE - 2010
River Poets Journal
THE ROWER - 2009
Burningwood Literary Journal
THE OWL - 2009
Burningwood Literary Journal
WASHINGTON DESERT PALMS, LA CA - 2005
Pilgrimage
A DEAD WOMAN'S HAIRPINS - 2002
You are Here, This is Now. The Best Young Writers and Artists in America.