Finalist for Perkoff Prize from The Missouri Review
Runner-up for North American Review Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize
The Christina Meldrum Memorial Scholarship for Community of Writers Workshop
Runner-up for AWP James Alan McPherson Novel Award
Finalist for New England Review's Emerging Writer Award, 2024
Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022 and 2024
“A Pretty Word for Goodbye,” honorable mention in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition—The Tilia Klebenov Jacobs Religious Essay Prize, 2015
“Sparknoting Lolita in Indiana,” entry of note in Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative’s Annual Personal Essay Contest, 2007
“Catholic Club,” third place in The Conference on Christianity and Literature’s Student Writing Contest, 2006