Awards & Reviews

• Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology by The Nonconformist Magazine for “Ashes of the Trumpocene,” Fall 2021.
• Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize for “Gravity” (short story), awarded by Eastern Washington University, Fall 2008.
• “Man in Africa” reviewed by Xujun Eberlein for Five Star Literary Stories.  Saturday, May 17, 2008.
• Reviews of Gravity have also appeared in The Southeast Review (2009) and Third Coast (2010).
• “Man in Africa” voted one of the “Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007.”
• Five stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Mid-American Review (2002), Hayden’s Ferry Review (2004), Storyglossia magazine (2007), Isthmus (2014), and Forge (2015).
• Winner of “Editor’s Choice Award” in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Contest for the story “Death and Texas”, Spring 2004.
• University of New Orleans Work-Study Award, Summer 2001.
• Nattie Weber Scholarship, University of Montana, Spring 2001.
• Second Annual Prentice Hall Writing Contest, honorable mention, Fall 2000.
• William Saroyan Fellowship, California State University, Fresno, 1998.
• Award for Academic Excellence, Department of German, U.C. Irvine, Fall 1995.
• Golden Key Honor Society, inducted as a lifetime member, Fall 1994.