Awards and Publications

1."A Festive Holiday Photo", one of four runners-up in the 2007 Fish International Poetry Contest, published in the 2007 Fish Anthology: A Paper Heart is Beating A Paper Boat Sets Sail.

2. "Remembrance", First Prize in the 2006 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse, and published in the anthology Sailing in the Mist of Time.

3. "Tombstones", placed on the short list for beginning and emerging poets in the 2006 Being At Work Challenge, will be published in the minnesota review.

4. "Visiting My Father’s Office", Second Prize in the 2007 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest.

5. "Magnolia", Most Highly Commended in the 2007 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest and a finalist for the 2006 New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction.

6. "Labor of Love Day 2005", Most Highly Commended in the 2007 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest.

7. "The Blue Laptop",long list for the 2006 Bridport Prize.

8. "Debbie Reynolds and Me and the Giant Squid", longlisted in the 2006 Fish International Poetry Contest.

9. "Chronicles from the Land of Maybes", will be published in the September issue of Wordgathering.