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 EstateTHE 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