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.
The Writing Expedition 