Writing awards and honors include:

2017 Ramsey Library Community Author Award at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. The judge for the contest was author, Wiley Cash.

1st place, Grateful Steps Publishing fiction contest, with publication in their collection, Drowning Allison and Other Stories, along with a Pushcart Prize nomination.

Finalist, Spirit of Sandburg Poetry Contest at The Citron Review.

2019 semi-finalist in The St. Lawrence Book Award for my short story manuscript, “If There is Anything Else You Can Do.”

2018 Regional Artist Project Grant.

Fellowships and residencies: The Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 

My story collection, “Offshore,” contains thematically linked stories about people on the edge of economic stability and the mirage of the American dream. Characters dream of being famous, converse with mannequins, steal pets from Park Avenue apartments, obsess over Cate Blanchet, send inappropriate postcards to troops in Afghanistan, insult Mystery Shoppers, attempt to drown friends, turn their backs on artistic goals for corporate jobs, write diary-style Facebook posts when trapped during a blizzard at retail jobs, and stalk Ferris Bueller.

Short Fiction

"Right-dog vs. Left-dog,"  The American Literary Review

"Front Lines,"  Stoneboat Literary Journal - Spring 2017 (Issue 7.2 - Beyond Red and Blue, Voices for America, ISBN-13: 9781545186305) - STORE

"If There is Anything Else You Can Do," Cosmonauts Avenue

"Please Come Back and See Us," Sou'wester (Spring 2015, print only)

"Drowning Allison,"  Drowning Allison and Other Stories (Grateful Steps Publishing) *** 1st Place short fiction contest

essay / Narrative Nonfiction

"Haunted Beauty,"  The Great Smokies Review

"Writing and Retail," The Great Smokies Review

"Don't Eat the Baby," The Nervous Breakdown (2012)

"Blue Notes," Ducts.org

poetry

"Lotus Flowers,"   The Citron Review  (Finalist, Spirit of Sandburg Contest)

"Tangerine Hunter,"  The Great Smokies Review

"That Will Be All,"  Press 53, Prime Decimal 59.3 (scroll down)

Freelance Clips - Arts

"Local Filmmaker Jennifer Trudrung Adapts a Stephen King Short Story for the Screen,” The Mountain Xpress

"Terpsicorps revisits a poignant topic with ‘Hunger,’” The Mountain Xpress

"How-to comedy series returns with a show about rules,” The Mountain Xpress

“There Are Words literary series launches in Asheville," The Mountain Xpress

“The Legacy of a Celebrated UNCA Writing and Literature Professor,” The Mountain Xpress

“Montford Park Players Opens the Season with ‘Shakespeare in Love,’” The Mountain Xpress

“The 12th Annual Mardi Gras Parade is Ready to Roll,” The Mountain Xpress

“Storyteller Connie Regan-Blake Releases an Album,” The Mountain Xpress

Freelance Clips - Food, Farm, Garden

"Robert Turner Discusses His Book and the Eat Your View Movement,” The Mountain Xpress

 "Asheville Podcasts Tell Local Food and Farm Stories,” The Mountain Xpress

“Asheville’s Complicated Relationship With Food Franchises,” The Mountain Xpress

“WNC Farmers Look to New Business Models After Last Year’s Flooding,” The Mountain Xpress