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• Pushcart Prize Nomination. "Here Come The Carnivores." The Carolina Quarterly. Fall 2012.
• Pushcart Prize Nomination. "The First Good Thing." Passages North. Fall 2012.
• Pushcart Prize Nomination. "This Cody." Greensboro Review. Fall 2012.
• Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Sewanee Writers' Conference. Summer 2012.
• Horn Professors' Graduate Achievement Award. Texas Tech University. Spring 2012.
• Robert Watson Literary Award. The Greensboro Review. Fall 2011.
• Pushcart Prize Nomination. "The Heart is the Least Like Soap." NANO Fiction. Fall 2011.
• Phipps-Massey Foundation Fellowship. The Tomales Bay Workshops. Fall 2011.
• Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction. Bellingham Review. Spring 2011.
• NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction Contest: Round 6. Winner. Spring 2011.
• Glimmer Train’s Open Fiction Issue Contest. Finalist. March 2010.
• Charles Johnson Fiction Award for Student Writers. Crab Orchard Review. Finalist. Fall 2010.
• The Newton Award for Nonfiction. Texas Tech University. 2010.
• Provost’s Fellowship. Texas Tech University. Fall 2009.  ($25, 000)
• The Texas Association for Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Graduate Student Nonfiction Award. Winner. 2008.