TIKI MAN / Novel
FINALIST. 2014 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest.
PUBLISHED. Regal House Publishing (2021)

STANDING DEADWOOD: COLLECTED STORIES
SEMI-FINALIST. 2015 Spokane Prize for Fiction (Willow Springs Edition)
FINALIST. 2014 Spokane Prize for Fiction (Willow Springs Edition)
FINALIST. 2014 St. Lawrence Book Award for Fiction (Black Lawrence Press)

GRIMACE IN THE BURNT BLACK HILLS / Short Story
​2X NOMINATED. 2013 Pushcart Prize
PUBLISHED. New Stories from the Midwest 2016

RED, WHITE & BLUE / Short Story
FINALIST. 2013 Danahy Fiction Prize (Tampa Review)

GRACE IN THE EMBERS / Short Story
WON. 1st Pl December magazine’s 2016 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction

ME & MR. TINKLES / Short Story
WON. 2016 Fish Publishing International Short Story Contest ​

RUINT HORSE / Short Story
FINALIST. 2014 Danahy Fiction Prize (Tampa Review)

OHIO ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE AWARD 
5X WINNER. 2014, 2012, 1996, 1988, 1985

Ohio Arts Council/Fine Arts Work Center
2013 Writer-in-Residence in Provincetown, MA

DANCING TURTLE / Short Play
WON. 2013 38th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival
WON. Aesthetica Annual Creative Writing Award Anthology 2017 UK
WON. Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2016 UK

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