Poet, Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Fiction
Poetry
Winner, Staged Reading, for Continuum of Care, 2022 New Play Festival, The Naples Players, Naples, FL;
Winner for Come Rain or Come Shine, 2019 New Plays from the Heartland Competition, Heartland Theatre, Bloomington-Normal, IL; Publication & Production Award for Scattered Shower, 2019 Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival, Center for the Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, FL;
First Prize for A Pet of Temperance, 2019 Summer Shorts Festival, Town & Gown Players, Stillwater, OK;
Laureate's Prize for Pusillanimous Poem, 2019 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition;
First Prize for Giving Up the Ghosts, 2018 New Play Competition, Pennsylvania Playhouse, Bethlehem, PA;
First Prize for Steering into the Skid, 2018 Summer Shorts Festival, Town & Gown Players, Stillwater, OK;
Laureate's Prize for Bookworm: A Fragment, 2018 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition;
First Prize for Poetry for Pantoum: Where We're Going, Where We've Been, 2016 Arkansas Science Festival Science Slam;
First Prize for The Great Reviser (2016 Spring Poetry Competition), Phi Kappa Phi Forum;
Third Prize for Candy Kisses, 2014 One-Act Competition, St. Croix Festival Theatre, St. Croix Falls, WI;
Finalist, Candy Kisses, 2019 Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Pittsburgh, PA;
Finalist, Candy Kisses, 2014 Drama Prize, Arts & Letters Journal, Milledgeville, GA;
Bronze Medal for The MemoryCare Plays, 2014 Independent Publisher Awards, New York City;
First Prize ($1,500), MemoryCare One-Act Competition, 2013, for Steering into the Skid (one-act play);
Runner-Up for The Poet Takes a Good Look at Himself, Phi Kappa Phi Forum 2012 Summer Poetry Competition;
Winner, Phi Kappa Phi Forum Summer 2009 Poetry Competition, for What's Underneath;
Finalist, 2009 Publication Prize, Snake Nation Press, for Spectators As We Are (poetry collection)