Awards, Recognition & Residencies

Lake Effect Stories was chosen by Judge Lauren Groff as the 2024 Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction at Sarabande Books and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in May 2026.

2020 Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction Winner for the short story, “Muskeg” which appears in The Madison Review, Volume 45 no.1, Fall 2020.

2024 Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction Finalist at Bellingham Review for the short story, “Lake Effect.”

2023 Saint Lawrence Prize Finalist at Black Lawrence Press for the short story collection, Lake Effect.

2023 Pleiades Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction Finalist for the short story, “Lake Effect.”

2023 Autumn House Press Fiction Contest Finalist for short story collection, Lake Effect.

2022 Missouri Review Jeffrey E Smith Editors' Prize Finalist for the short story, “Winter’s Barter.”

2022 Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Finalist for the short story, “Lake Effect.”

2022 Autumn House Press Fiction Contest Finalist for short story collection, Lake Effect.

2022 Hudson Prize Finalist at Black Lawrence Press for short story collection, Lake Effect.

2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction Finalist from Willow Springs Books for short story collection, Lake Effect.

2022 Masters Review Anthology XI of Emerging Writers Shortlist for the short story, “Map Travel.”

2022 Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Short Story Award Finalist for the short story, “Trouble in Mind.”

2018 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Top 25, March/April 2018 for the short story, “Rocks.”

2024 Bread Loaf Writers Conference Participant in Fiction. Ripton, Vermont.

2024 Vashon Artist Residency Writer. Vashon Island, Washington.

2024 Cohort Writer with Willa Cather Writers Residency at the National Willa Cather Center. Red Cloud, Nebraska.