Awarded a space at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont. This is a 10-day literary and intellectual retreat for emerging writers to work with talented faculty that includes Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners as well as MacArthur Fellows and U.S. Poet Laureates.

Honorable Mention for the Al Blanchard Award, for The Madness of Ida Mae, given at the 2012 annual Crime Bake, Dedham Hilton Hotel, in Massachusetts.