My fiction has earned many awards and accolades from editors, judges, and academics:
Winner of Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest, 2018, for Summer of ‘85
Winner of Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award, 2011, for short story collection, They Hover Over Us
Finalist for Somerset Novel Award, 2016, for novel Made To Break Your Heart
Pushcart Prize nominee, 2009, for short story “A Completely New Life,” published in Potomac Review
Winner of 2008 Flash Fiction Contest, Red Cedar Review, for story “He Never Talked About You”
Top Ten Summer Read, 2012, Midtown Scholar bookstore, Harrisburg, Pa., for They Hover Over Us.
Beverly Hiscox Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, Wilkes University, 2009.
Winner of Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest, 2018, for Summer of ‘85
Winner of Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award, 2011, for short story collection, They Hover Over Us
Finalist for Somerset Novel Award, 2016, for novel Made To Break Your Heart
Pushcart Prize nominee, 2009, for short story “A Completely New Life,” published in Potomac Review
Winner of 2008 Flash Fiction Contest, Red Cedar Review, for story “He Never Talked About You”
Top Ten Summer Read, 2012, Midtown Scholar bookstore, Harrisburg, Pa., for They Hover Over Us.
Beverly Hiscox Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, Wilkes University, 2009.
Receiving the Beverly Hiscox Award at Wilkes University's Graduate Program for Creative Writing.