Awards

WRITING AWARDS:

Winner, 2024 Virginia’s Selection for book for Young Readers for the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival’s “Great Reads for Great Places”

Finalist, 2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES for YA for Robin and Her Misfits

Winner, 2021 Foreword Reviews INDIES Gold Medal for YA for Tink and Wendy

Semi-Finalist, 2021 University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize for Weaver

Finalist, Chapbook Contest, May 2021 by Newfound Press for Darkness Divine

Longlist Selectee, Prize for Fiction, January 2021 by Dzanc Books for Weaver

Longlist Selectee, Small Book Contest, December 2020 by Pank for What Floats in the IGM

Semi-Finalist, Cutbank Chapbook Contest, July 2020 by Cutbank Literary Journal for Darkness Divine

Winner, Split/Lip Press Chapbook Competition, July 2020 for An Inventory of Abandoned Things

Winner, Best Small Fictions, April 2020 by Gargoyle

Semi-Finalist, Black River Chapbook Competition, April 2020 by Black Lawrence Press for An Inventory of Abandoned Things

Nominee, Best Small Fictions, December 2019 by Monkeybicycle

Nominee, Pushcart Prize, November 2019 by Gargoyle

Nominee, Pushcart Prize, November 2019 by Monkeybicycle

Nominee, Pushcart Prize, December 2016 by Northern Virginia Review

Winner, Northern Virginia Review Fiction Prize, March 2016

Finalist, Wild Onion Novella Contest (Curbside Splendor Publishing), August 2015

Finalist, Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for Novels, Novellas, and Short Fiction (Snake Nation Press), 2014

Winner, Most Viewed Article, 20somethingmagazine.com, June 2013

Finalist, Iron Horse Literary Review’s Single Author Novella Contest, 2013

TEACHING AWARDS:

Rising Star Award, Southern New Hampshire University, Spring 2021

Faculty of the Quarter Award, Art Institute of Washington, Spring 2016

Faculty of the Quarter Award, Art Institute of Washington-Dulles, Summer 2015