Awards & Honors

Winner, 2013 Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award, May, 2013	Nominated for San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards, May, 2013	Featured as 1 of 15 "Bay Area Literary Heroes," San Francisco Magazine, June, 2013	Fiction Judge, Burning River Press Chapbook Contest, Summer, 2013	The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2012, May, 2013
Fiction Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards, 2013	Juror, Selection Committee, LitCamp Writers' Conference, 2013	Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, 2013	Judge, Literary Death Match, San Francisco, July, 2012	Shortlist, Anam Cara Short Story Competition, August, 2012,
Commendation from Christine Dwyer Hickey in Moth Altun Short Story Prize, "Two Moons," May, 2012	Winner, Portuguese Writers' Colony Live Writing Contest, May, 2012	Shortlist, Bristol Short Story Prize, 2012	Winner, Tin House Plotto Contest, May, 2012	Semi-Finalist, Rose Metal Press Sixth Chapbook Contest, January, 2012
Bristol Short Story Prize, 2011, Longlist	Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2011, Longlist	Cut Through the Bone, Longlist, Frank O'Connor Int'l Short Story Award, 2011	Cut Through the Bone, Longlist, The Story Prize, 2010	Guest Editor, Smokelong Quarterly Magazine, May, 2010
Writer in Residence, Necessary Fiction, March, 2010	Winner, PANK Little Books contest, 2010	Winner, 30 Day Writing Regimen, Southeast Review Online, 2010	Third Eye Commentary, Founding Review, August, 2009	PANK, Runner-up, First Annual Chapbook Contest, 2009
Davy Byrne International Writing Contest, Judged by Richard Ford, Longlist, 2009	Fish Publishing One Page Story Prize, Longlist, 2009	Bartleby Snopes Magazine, Story of the Month, May, 2009	Mills College Alumni Graduate Merit Scholarship, 2002-2004	Mills College Academic Honors List, 1998-2004
Writer's Colony Dairy Hollow, Residency, Arkansas, 2003	Mills College Dean's Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, 1998-2002	Winner, Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize, Young Adult Fiction, 2002	Ardella Mills Prize, Second Place, Non-Fiction, 2002	Winner, Ardella Mills Prize, Fiction, 2001