"Rivertown" Still: The Journal, Fall 2019 Winner, 2019 Fiction Contest
With an aching, reflective voice, the author recounts the fraught but loving relationship between father and son in the midst of a strike that stresses a town...The story’s ruminative tone and sharp, spare prose...left me gutted at story’s end. - Michael Croley, contest judge
"The Vigil" Able Muse, Winter 2018 Winner, Write Prize for Fiction
"The Vigil" does what great short stories do: Through the smallest of apertures, we have rendered for us an entire world, whole and broken at once...This story of guilt, of confession, and of the residual terror of oppression...is a terrific piece that shows us the quiet majesty of story itself. - Bret Lott, contest judge