Honors

2023 Oregon Book Awards , All the Leavings, Finalist for the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

Pushcart Prize nomination, “Transmute,” Waterwheel Review, December 2023

Best of the Net Anthology nomination, “Transmute,” Waterwheel Review, September 2023

2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award, All the Leavings, Winner in the category Memoir (Personal Struggle/Health Issues) and Finalist in the category Women’s Literature (Nonfiction)

2022 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards, All the Leavings, Finalist in the categories Nonfiction: Memoir and First Nonfiction

2018 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Finalist for my manuscript All the Leavings

Artist Residency, Playa, February 2018

Best American Essays 2015 Notable Essay distinction, “Crack My Heart Wide Open” (published in The Rumpus) selected by Robert Atwan, October 2015

Best of the Net (Sundress Publications) nomination, “Sojourns with Big Cats in Triptych,” Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, September 2015

Pushcart Prize nomination, “Something to Do with Baldness,” Under the Gum Tree, December 2014

Third Prize Prime Number Magazine Award for Creative Nonfiction in association with Press 53, “Her Body, a Wilderness,” Judge: Ned Stuckey-French, 2014

Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, October 2013

Grant, Vermont Studio Center, October 2012

Herman Schmeling Award for Expository Writing, Southern Oregon University, 2009

Ed Versluis Memorial Contest, Fiction Honorable Mention, Southern Oregon University, 2007

Ed Versluis Memorial Contest, Nonfiction Winner, Southern Oregon University, 2006