Awards and Residencies

Top 25 honor, “Flight,” SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, Spring 2024 

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship, Winter 2024 

Top 50 Very Short Fictions, “A Random Strike,” Wigleaf, Winter 2023

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship, Spring 2023

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship, Winter 2022 

Faculty Research Award, CAS Dean’s Office, University of Baltimore, Summer 2021 

Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, Spring 2019 

Honorable Mention for “Skunk Bunny,” Glimmer Train, March/April 2016

Fundación Valparaíso—Mojacar, Spain—Fellowship, Winter 2012

Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, Winter 2010 

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts—Nebraska City, NE—Fellowship, Summer 2010 

Pushcart Prize for short story, “Scarecrow,” Winter 2009

The Alfred and Trafford Klots Artist Residency—Rochefort-en-Terre, France—Fellowship, Summer 2009

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Fellowship, Winter 2008

Individual Artist Award (literary category) from the City of Baltimore, Spring 2008

Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, Elliot Coleman Postgraduate Fellowship, 2003-2004 

Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, teaching fellowship, 2002-2003 

Top 10 honor, “So What,” Zoetrope fiction contest, Winter 2001

Top 25 honor, “Red,” Glimmer Train, Spring 2000

Michener Center for Writers, James A. Michener Fellowship, 1995-1998

Teaching Awards 

Klein Professor of Writing and Literature, University of Baltimore, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018-2021

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Baltimore, Spring 2020