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2026 Nominations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Party of Four” nominated by -ette<\/em> for Best Small Fictions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My Evening with Marilyn” nominated by -ette<\/em> for Best Small Fictions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It Was the First Day of Fall When the Sumo Left the Dohy\u014d” nominated for 2026 Best Microfiction<\/em> by Flash the Court<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My Evening with Marilyn” nominated by -ette<\/em> for Best of the Net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “A Week After I Die” nominated for the Pushcart Prize by 10 x 10<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 Best of the Net nomination from -ette review <\/em>for “My Evening with Marilyn”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2025 Pushcart Prize Winner “This Would Not Fit On A Bumper Sticker,” originally published in Wigleaf<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Microfiction 2025 Nomination for “During a Nor’easter” from Stanchion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal for Forest for the Trees & Other Stories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 Readers’ Favorite Five-Star Award for Forest for the Trees & Other Stories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 Southern California Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Forest for the Trees & Other Stories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Winner, Paris Book Festival for Forest for the Trees & Other Stories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “This Would Not Fit on the Bumper Sticker” from Wigleaf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Launch Pad Prose Writing Competition, Top Ten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Best Microfiction Winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Short Story Today Microfiction Contest Winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Princemere Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Finalist for London Independent Story Prize for Flash Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “The Clearing” from Hidden Peak Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Love in Exam Room C” from miniskirt magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Best Microfiction Nomination for “Warmer Water” from Flash Frog<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Best Microfiction Nomination for “I Took a Trip” from Ran Off With the Star Bassoon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Portland Screenplay Awards, Quarterfinalist for Every Good Boy Does Fine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Atlanta Screenplay Awards, Quarterfinalist for Every Good Boy Does Fine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Los Angeles Book Festival, Winner for Heaven and Other Zip Codes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Heaven and Other Zip Codes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Paris Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Heaven and Other Zip Codes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards, Quarterfinalist for Every Good Boy Does Fine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention for Catacombs of the Heart<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 Los Angeles International Screenwriting Awards, Semi-Finalist for Somewhere Outside of Lincoln<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 Adelaide Literary Award, Finalist for “The Things We Tell Ourselves”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 Caldecott Medal Nomination for The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey Hawley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 Newbery Award Nomination for The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey Hawley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 Geisel Award Nomination for The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey Hawley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 New England Book Festival Winner for May I Have This Dance? <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention for May I Have This Dance?<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 Paris Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Loss Angeles <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Loss Angeles<\/em>: Best Book Award, Finalist for Short-Story Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Loss Angeles<\/em>: International Book Award, Finalist for Short-Story Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Loss Angeles<\/em>: London Book Festival, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Loss Angeles<\/em>: Hollywood Book Festival, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Loss Angeles<\/em>: New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 Judge of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Prize for Short Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015 Saturday Evening Post <\/em>Great American Fiction Contest, Finalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 Carve Magazine<\/em> Raymond Carver Short Story Award, Finalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 Carve Magazine<\/em> Raymond Carver Short Story Award, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, Finalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare Award for Poetry, Winner, presented by Torrance Consortium of the Arts, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Clearing\u201d selected as a 2014 Phoebe<\/em> Winter Fiction Contest Finalist, Judged by Benjamin Percy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Father\u201d selected as a 2013 New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize Finalist\u2014and anthology winner of a Midwest Book Award in 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the Window\u201d selected as a 2013 Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction Finalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re with Me\u201d selected as a 2013 Northwind<\/em> Short Story Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the Bridge\u201d selected as the winner of the 2012 Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDark Timber\u201d selected as honorable mention in the 2012 Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne-Night Stand\u201d selected as honorable mention in the 2012 Short Story America <\/em>Prize for Short Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekly Artists\u2019 Featured Writer on the Month, June 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cZorba\u2019s\u201d selected as 2010 Glimmer Train<\/em> Short Story Award Finalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Board Member of the Short Story Writers Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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