Awards

  • Winner - 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize - Kallisto Gaia Press - Short Story Collection

  • Winner - 2022 & 2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Professional Artist Grant

  • Winner - Summer 2018 Ohio Arts Council Artist Residency at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

  • Winner - Winter 2018 Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts

  • Winner - June 2015 Artist Residency at The Studios of Key West

  • Winner - 2014 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

  • Winner - 2012 Waasmode Short Fiction Prize - Passages North

  • Winner - Spring 2012 Orlando Prize for Short Fiction - AROHO

  • Finalist - 2022 Tartt First Fiction Award - Short Story Collection - Top 5

  • Finalist - 2018 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers - Honorable Mention

  • Finalist - 2017 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers - Top 25

  • Finalist - 2017 Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction - Top 10

  • Finalist - 2017 Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize - Novel - First Runner-up

  • Finalist - 2016 & 2017 Autumn House Press Fiction Contest - Novel

  • Finalist - 2016 & 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition - Novel

  • Semi-Finalist - 2017 & 2018 Hudson Prize - Black Lawrence Press - Short Story Collection

  • Finalist - 2016 Nelligan Prize - Colorado Review - Top 8

  • Finalist - 2014 Phoebe Winter Fiction Contest - Phoebe Literary Journal

  • Finalist - 2013 James Knudsen Prize for Fiction - Bayou Magazine

  • Finalist - 2012 Jaimy Gordon Fiction Prize - Third Coast

  • Finalist - 2012 & 2013 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition - Short Story

  • Finalist - 2012 & 2015 Iron Horse Literary Review Single Author Competition

  • Finalist - 2010/2011/2012 Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contests

  • Shortlisted - 2010 Bridport Prize - Short Story Competition

  • Semi-Finalist - 2010 & 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition - Novel-in-Progress

  • Finalist - 2010 Matt Clark Fiction Prize - New Delta Review - Top 5

  • Finalist - 2005 New Millennium Writings Fiction Award

  • Nomination - 2012 Best of the Net Award

  • Nomination - 2015 & 2016 Pushcart Prize

Writing Fellowships & Scholarships

  • Peter Taylor Fellowship - 2012 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

  • Vermont College of Fine Arts Scholarship - 2011 VCFA Writers Workshop

  • Sewanee Contributor Scholarship - 2006 & 2017 Sewanee Writers' Conference

 

Featured Photo

New Smyrna - Karin Cecile Davidson