HONORS
Pushcart Prize
Nominee 2025
“Truth or Consequences”
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The Best Small Fictions
Nominee 2025
“Truth or Consequences”
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American Short Fiction’s Halifax Ranch Prize
Top 10 Finalist 2025
“Tender”
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Write or Die’s First-Ever Fiction Contest
Top 10 Finalist 2025
“Two Horses, One Good”
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The Story Prize
Longlisted 2024
RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES
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The Best American Short Stories
Distinguished Story 2022
“Lush”
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IPPY Award
Gold Medal 2022
BIG BAD
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The Best Small Fictions
Winner 2022
“Faster”
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Pushcart Prize
Nominee 2022
“Rocks 4 Sale”
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The Best of the Net
Nominee 2022
“The Split”
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Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction
Longlisted 2022
“Brain, Brian”
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INDIES Award
Bronze Medal 2021
BIG BAD
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ProForma Contest
Winner 2021
“Cray”
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The American Short(er) Fiction Prize
Winner 2020
“Ricky”
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Pushcart Prize
Winner 2020
“The Entertainer”
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Pushcart Prize
Special Mention 2020
“The Pupil”
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Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
Winner 2019
BIG BAD
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The American Short(er) Fiction Prize
Semifinalist 2019
“Script”
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Pushcart Prize
Nominee 2018
“Daddy-o”
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PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize
Nominee 2018
“Daddy-o”
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Glimmer Train Summer Fiction Open
Honorable Mention 2017
“The Nest”
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Short Stories Only! Contest
Finalist 2003
“Octopus”
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Short Stories Only! Contest
Runner-Up 2001
“With the Flood”
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Senior Fellowship in Fiction
Hamilton College, 1994-1995
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Rose B. Tager Prize in Fiction
Hamilton College, 1995
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Thomas E. Meehan Prize in Fiction
Hamilton College, 1994