Books
Precious Ugly
Debut Novel
7.13 Books
2026
Craft’s First Chapters Award Shortlist. Precious Ugly. Judged by Naomi Huffman, FSG. 2019.
Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction Finalist. Precious Ugly, Excerpted. Judged by Anne Tyler. 2018.
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
A Collection of Stories
Patasola Press
2011
Editor and Closed Panel Nominations for Pushcart, PEN/Hemingway and PEN Emerging Awards.
Selected Short Fiction & Essays
“In the Buff,” The Paris Review
“An Open Letter to a Suicidal Friend, a Bulimic Friend, a Long Lost Aunt, and Stephanie, Your New Linked In Connection,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“The Semiotics of Beavers,” North American Review
“The Trending Infection.” The Missouri Review
“Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery: A Redacted Story of a Woman’s Body,” DIAGRAM
“Good Girl,” Story Quarterly No. 45
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Selected Reviews
“NOBODY’S GIRL by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.” Eckleburg.
“TENTH OF DECEMBER by George Saunders.” Washington Independent Review of Books. 2013. Politics and Prose Pick of the Week.
“DADDY LOVE by Joyce Carol Oates.” New York Journal of Books.
“PROSPEROUS FRIENDS” by Christine Schutt. New York Journal of Books.
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Awards & Honors
Craft’s First Chapters Award Shortlist for Precious Ugly, Judged by Naomi Huffman, FSG, 2019.
Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalist for “The Semiotics of Beavers,” judged by Lidia Yuknavitch, 2019.
Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction Finalist for Precious Ugly excerpt, judged by Anne Tyler, 2018.
The &NOW Awards, closed-committee nominated, 2014.
Politics & Prose Review Pick of the Week, Review of George Saunders’ Tenth of December (Random House) published in Washington Independent Review of Books, 2013.
Pushcart Awards, Editor nominated, 2011 and 2012.
PEN Emerging Writers Award, Closed Committee Nomination, 2011.
PEN/Hemingway Award, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals nominated by publisher, Patasola Press, 2011.
StorySouth’s Million Writers Award, Editor Nominated, 2010.
Dzanc Best of the Web Editor Nominated, 2010.
Sundress Best of the Net, Editor Nominated, 2010.
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, Honorable Mention, 2010.
Bartleby Snopes Short Story Contest, Second Place, February 2010.
Whidbey Writers’ Student Choice Contest, First Place, July 2008.
Fellowships & Residencies
Aspen Summer Workshop, Advisor: Andre Dubus III. Scholarship Recipient, 2014
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Advisor: Alice McDermott, 2011.
The Johns Hopkins University, Writing and Teaching Fellowship, Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy, Advisor: Jill McCorkle, 2011.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Fellow in Residence, 2011.
The Johns Hopkins University, Conference on Craft, Bar Harbor, Advisor: Alice McDermott, 2009.
Selected Professional
Jean M. Sartwell Scholarship, American University
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Assistantship, American University
Gender and Diversity Program Chair, Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, Outstanding Graduate Award
Selected Lecturing & Panels
The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Writing Program, Faculty.
American University, College of Arts and Sciences, Adjunct Instructor, Literature.
University of Iowa, The International Writing Program, ” Guest Lecturer.
McNeese State University, Guest Author and Lecturer.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Chesapeake Writers’ Conference, Panelist.
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (APW), Panelist.
Conversations and Connections, Panelist.
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