Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Creative Nonfiction
Fiction
BOOKS—Fiction
- Reinventing Rita — 2023 International Firebird Book award winner, Bronze award winner in the 2023 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition, semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards
- Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories—runner-up in 2016 Shelf Unbound Competition
- Peripheral Visions and Other Stories—Bronze award winner in the 2020 Foreword Indies competition; finalist in the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award competition, finalist in the 2020 NN Light Book Awards; second-place winner in the Royal Palm Literary competition
BOOKS—Nonfiction
- Rut-Busting Book For Writers--2018 Best Shelf Unbound Indie Book-Notable Book; finalist on the 2018 American Book Fest competition
- Rut-Busting Book for Authors—finalist in the 2019 American Book Fest competition, finalist in the 2020 Independent Author Network Book of the Year; 2019 Readers' Favorite 5-star award winner
Short Stories
- “Right Wrist or Left” — shortlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2016 The Raven Short Story Contest
- “I Remember” — shortlisted for Tulip Tree’s 2017 Stories That Need to Be Told Contest
- “Peripheral Visions” — a quarter-finalist in the 2016 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest
- “Pandora’s Box” — a quarter-finalist in the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest