- Skidmore Writers Institute Scholarship Recipient 2010
- Tennessee Williams Scholar. Sewanee Writer’s Conference. University of the South, July 2009.
- George M. Harper Award. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL, May 2009.
- Creative Writing Award in Nonfiction. University of Missouri, May 2007
- The Seattle Review. National Fiction Contest, January 2006. Finalist in national competition.
- Fiction Fellowship. University of Montana, January 2006