- On Wind and Fire, finalist for 2012 Michael Steinberg Essay Prize awarded by Fourth Genre
- Interview on r.kv.r.y quarterly literary review
- "The Lives of Cells" won first place in the 2011 Chautauqua poetry contest on War and Peace. Published June 2012 in Chautauqua Literary Journal
- "Migrations" has won first place in the Non-Rhyming Poetry category of the 2011 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition
- "Bathing" has been named a Notable essay in The Best American Essays 2011
- "On White Space and Silence," a lyric essay, will be published in Puerto del Sol 2012
- "Afterwards: a draft" will be published in r.kv.r.y quarterly literary review 2012
- "Phantom Mares," an essay, will be published in Hotel Amerika 2012
- Reading
at the 2012 AWP conference in Chicago as part of the Fifth Year
Anniversary Reading: Ashland University MFA Creative Nonfiction Faculty
with Robert Root, Steve Harvey, Jill Christman, Sonya Huber.
- "Bathing" and "(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay" are now out in the newest 6th edition of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/an Creative Nonfiction textbook/anthology.
- "Heresies of the Holy" is one of ten finalists out of 300 entries for the 2011 Michael Steinberg Essay Prize awarded by Fourth Genre.
- "Bathing" is
one of three finalist in Adult Essay for the Colorado Authors' League
2011 Awards. "Judges Choose 2010’s Best Work from Colorado’s
Professional Writers." "Bathing" was originally published in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Click here for pdf.
- Stepping Sideways into Poetry Writing total sales to date has reached almost $6500.
