“The Pregnancy Game” was selected for inclusion in Flash Fiction America (Norton 2023)
Finalist, The Non/Fiction Collection Prize 2021
Winner, 2021 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
“Hostages” was long-listed for the 2021 Wigleaf Top 50
Winner, 2021 Zizzle Literary Flash Fiction contest, for “Hand-Me-Downs”
“Cake or Pie” was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021
Winner, 2020 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize, Emrys Journal, for “Keeper Four”
“Mirrors” was selected for Best Microfiction 2021
Finalist, 2020 W.S. Porter Prize, Regal House Press
Finalist, 2020 Hudson Prize, Black Lawrence Press
Winner of 2020 Stillhouse Books Short Story Award
Finalist, 2020 Orison Fiction Prize
“Fertilizer” and “Manhandle” were long-listed for the 2020 Wigleaf Top 50
Finalist, Story Foundation Prize 2020
Finalist, 2020 Blue Light Books Prize
“Fertilizer” and “Palate Cleanser” were selected for Best Microfiction 2020
“One or Two?” selected for 2019 Wigleaf Top 50; also, “An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot” was long-listed
Finalist, 2018 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction for “A Mouth is a House for Teeth”
Finalist, 2018 Best of the Net Anthology for “Why Science Lessons That Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief”
Finalist and Highly Commended Story, The Forge 2018 Flash Fiction Contest for “Muscle Memory”
Finalist, 2017 Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Short Stories
Finalist, 2017 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction for “Prologue”
Long-listed for 2017 Wigleaf Top 50 for “Phainopepla”
Winner of 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award
Runner-up for 2016 Juniper Prize in Short Fiction
Finalist, 2016 New American Press Short Fiction Prize
Finalist, 2016 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest
3rd Place Winner, Sixfold 2016 Spring Fiction Contest for “An Impromptu Lesson on Black Holes”
3rd Place Winner, Sixfold 2015 Winter Fiction Contest for “Waiting for the Cottonmouths to Feed”
Winner of Sixfold 2014 Winter Fiction Contest for “Cinema Verite”
Winner of Main Street Rag 2005 Fiction Contest for “How Many Ways Can You Die on a Bus?”
Finalist, Pebble Lake Review 2005 Fiction Contest for “Ventriloquy”
Winner of Gulf Coast 2002 Fiction Contest for “If My Mother Was the Final Girl”
Nominations
Best Microfiction Nomination for “What I Owned,” published in Monkeybicycle, 2022
Best Microfiction Nomination for “Bristles,” published in Nurture, 2022
Best Microfiction Nomination for “Sugar,” published in Ruby, 2022
Best Microfiction Nomination for “Crossing Guard,” published in The Journal, 2022
Best Small Fictions Nomination for “My Sister’s Monkey,” published in Laurel Review, 2022
Best Small Fictions Nomination for “Fake Fruit,” published in Cease, Cows, 2022
Pushcart Nomination for “The Classification of Living Things,” published in Outlook Springs, 2022
Best of the Net Nomination for 2022 for “Deluxe Scrabble,” published in Cutleaf
Best Microfiction Nomination for 2020 for “Snapshot,” published in Atlas & Alice
Best of the Net Nominations for 2020 for “Eden,” published in MoonPark Review and “Ghosts-Turned-Blue,” a story I wrote with Kim Magowan and which was published in The Florida Review
Best Small Fictions Nomination for “Migration,” published in Fictive Dream, 2019
Pushcart Nomination for “Deposition,” published in Milk Candy Review, 2019
Pushcart Nomination for “Dee Bukowski,” published in Epiphany, 2019
Best Microfiction Nomination for 2019 for “Fertilizer,” published in Pithead Chapel
Best Small Fictions Nomination for “A Test I Knew I Could Pass,” a collaborative fiction written with Kim Magowan, and published in Cagibi
Best Small Fictions Nomination for 2018 for “One or Two?” published in Passages North
Best Microfiction Nomination for 2018 for “An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot,” published in Pidgeonholes
Best of the Net Nomination for 2018 for “Why Science Lessons That Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief,” published in Threadcount
Pushcart Nomination for 2019 Pushcart Anthology for “Glow,” published in Arroyo Literary Review
Best of the Net nomination for 2017 for “The Difference Between Me and Everyone Else,” published in The Forge
Pushcart Nomination for 2018 Pushcart Anthology for “Phainopepla,” published in Cease, Cows
Pushcart Nomination for 2018 Pushcart Anthology for “Rattlesnake Roundup,” published in Moon City Review
Pushcart Nomination for 2018 Pushcart Anthology for “Virgins,” published in Arroyo Literary Review
Pushcart Nomination for 2018 Pushcart Anthology for “Accomplice of Hostage,” published in Jellyfish Review
Pushcart Nomination for 2017 Pushcart Anthology for “Unit 7: Exploring Fossils,” published in Synaesthesia Magazine
Pushcart Nomination for 2017 Pushcart Anthology for “Sex Ed.,” published in Bird’s Thumb