Awards
2010 Nomination by the Los Angeles Review for Pushcart Prize
2010 Nomination for Dzanc’s Best of the Web
2010 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, February
2009 The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2009
2007 Novel Mentorship with Jon Raymond, Tin House Writers Conference
2006 Novel Mentorship with Dorothy Allison, Tin House Writers Conference
2001 1st Place Winner of the Capricorn Novel Award, Writer’s Voice of NYC
1999 Finalist, James Jones First Novel Contest
1998 VirginiaCenter for the Creative Arts, Residency, June
1997 Corporation of Yaddo, Residency, June
1996 The MacDowell Colony, Residency, April-May
1995 National Endowment for the Arts in Literature, Fellowship, fiction writing
1995 The Ragdale Foundation, Residency, September
1994 Finalist, Nelson Algren Award, Chicago Tribune, short story contest
1992 Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Scholarship
1991 Villa Montalvo, Center for the Arts & Arboretum, Residency, June
1991 PEN Synicated Fiction Award, for a story that was later read on NPR
1990 The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Residency, August
