*Winner of the 2016 Dzanc Books inaugural Prize for Fiction
*Author of the short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, winner of the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction, University of Massachusetts Press, published by UMass Press
*Authors stories have been published in The Sun, Quarterly West, Ecotone, and Denver Quarterly
*Recipient of a Tim McGinnis Award by Iowa Review (2015) and Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2009).
