2018 Zone 3 Fiction Award for the short story Hallelujah Station
2018 National Endowment of the Arts, Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing, FCI Beckley
2018 Nominated, Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina
2017 Audience Choice Award UNO Film Festival, Arrow of Light
2017 Official Selection at Oxford Film Festival, Arrow of Light
2016 Official Selection at Pontchatrain Film Festival, Arrow of Light
2016 Official Selection at Memphis Indie Film Festival, Arrow of Light
2014 Recipient of the W.R. Irwin Award for Excellence in Teaching at The University of Iowa
2014-2015 Recipient of a University of Iowa Teaching Fellowship at the Frank N. Magid Center
for Undergraduate Writing
2013 Nominated, Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
2012-2015 Recipient of a University of Iowa Teaching Fellowship in General Education
Literature
2012 Recipient of a University of Iowa Teaching Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction
2012 Departmental Distinction, English, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2012 Distinction as Undergraduate Research Scholar, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2012 Recipient of The University of North Carolina Outstanding Community Service Award,
University of North Carolina at Asheville
2012 Winner of Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry
2011 Recipient of a Summer Travel Grant from the UNC Asheville Undergraduate Research
Committee
2011 Recipient of The University of North Carolina William Comfort Scholarship for
Excellence in Creative Writing
2010 Winner of the Oculus Award for Screenwriting
2009 Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Award for Fiction