My fiction has earned many awards and accolades from editors, judges, and academics:
Winner, Thomas E. Kennedy Novel Award, 2025, for novel An American Girl. Publication summer 2025 from Serving House Books.
Shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books, 2024, for novel manuscript An American Girl.
Shortlisted for a Page Turner Award, 2022, for novel-in-progress An American Girl
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, American Fiction Awards, General Fiction category, 2021, for Summer of '85
Distinguished Favorite, NYC Big Book Award, General Fiction category, 2021, for Summer of '85
Honorable mention, Hollywood Book Festival, General Fiction competition, 2021, for Summer of '85
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, Thomas E. Kennedy Novel Award, 2025, for novel An American Girl. Publication summer 2025 from Serving House Books.
Shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books, 2024, for novel manuscript An American Girl.
Shortlisted for a Page Turner Award, 2022, for novel-in-progress An American Girl
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, American Fiction Awards, General Fiction category, 2021, for Summer of '85
Distinguished Favorite, NYC Big Book Award, General Fiction category, 2021, for Summer of '85
Honorable mention, Hollywood Book Festival, General Fiction competition, 2021, for Summer of '85
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.