Awards & Publications

Awards

  • PUSHCART PRIZE 2019 - Essay, A Memory of a Deliberate Thing I Said Once to My Skin

  • BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2019 NOTABLE - Essay, A Memory of a Deliberate Thing I Said Once to My Skin 

  • 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

  • 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 AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS FULL-LENGTH NONFICTION CONTEST, 2016, Finalist - The Coolest Monster

  • 2015- CUTTHROAT JOURNAL'S BARRY LOPEZ CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE, Semi-finalist - The Fox

  • 2004 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR IN THE ARTS

  • 2004 SCHOLASTIC New York Times James B. Reston Portfolio Silver Award in Nonfiction

    Publications

  • TWENTY SQUARE FEET OF SKIN: 2023, Mad Creek Books

  • GREEN THUMB -2021The Colorado Review

  • FARM GIRL: A MEMOIR - 2021 Green Writers Press

  • HOW YOGA TEACHER TRAINING TURNED ME AGAINST THE WELLNESS MOVEMENT The Real Story

  • ON REVISION - 2021, Hotel Amerika

  • ON PULLING WHITE HAIRS - 2021 Sweet: A Literary Confection & Creative Nonfiction Sunday Shorts

  • HUNGER -2019, The Florida Review

  • 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  TO MY SKIN - 2018, The Threepenny Review

  • POLISH - 2018 , Hotel Amerika

  • MUSE - 2018, New South

  • 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

  • THE MUSIC I KNEW - 2016, The Tishman Review

  • THE OPAL THIEVES - 2016, Blue River Journal

  • THE WILDERNESS - 2016, The Open Bar at Tin House