Awards & Honors

2025 Imadjinn Award finalist for Best Story Collection for Self-Made Monsters (Alien Buddha Press)
2025 Pushcart Prize nomination for “I Won’t Call It a Monster” in Self-Made Monsters (Alien Buddha Press)
2025 Pushcart Prize nomination for “The Taste of Other People’s Teeth” in Shadows in the Stacks (Shortwave Publishing)
2024 Golden Scoop Award for Favorite Horror Adjacent Work nomination for Creep This Way
2024 Imadjinn Award for Best Poetry Collection for In Memory of Exoskeletons (Imaginarium)
2024 Pushcart Prize nomination for “Bloodthirsty” (Alien Buddha Press)
2023 Best of the Net nomination for “Grafting” (Miniskirt Magazine)
2023 Best of the Net nomination for “Still Love” (Nocturne Magazine)
2023 Pushcart Prize nomination for “Still Love” (Nocturne Magazine)
Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest voting round finalist, “Punching In,” July 2023
2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching – Chautauqua Today
50-Word Stories – Story of the Week (April 3, 2022) for “Emissaries” – fiftywordstories.com
50-Word Stories – Story of the Week (Feb. 6, 2022) for “Not Yet” – fiftywordstories.com
Onyx Publications – Honorable Mention, Winter Contest (2021) for “A Bargain at Twice the Price” – onyxpublications.com
New Millennium Writing Awards – Finalist, 51st New Millennium Writings Awards (2021) for “Joiner” – newmillenniumwritings.org
“OBSERVER wins two New York News Publishers Association awards” – Distinguished Beat Reporting for “Building Blocks,” a series on historic structures – observertoday.com
“OBSERVER wins three New York News Publishers Association awards” – Distinguished Headline Writing for “‘Number Two’ is number one problem at Silver Creek beach” – observertoday.com