Awards

• “Hard Men,” short fiction, finalist, Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, Salem College Center for Women Writers International Literary Awards 2010.

• “Wanting,” short fiction, runner-up, Georgetown Review Contest, 2010.

• “Exit Wounds,” short fiction, finalist (top 5), Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, 2009.

• The Body Animal and Other Stories, short story collection, semifinalist, the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize, 2008.

• “In the Headlights,” short fiction, finalist (top 3%), Glimmer Train Short-Story Award for New Writers, 2007.

• “Where the Bluebellies Are,” lyric essay, honorable mention, Neltje Blanchan Award, 2003.