1993 Gold Award, Pacific Asia Travel Association, Getting Hold of Big Sur (travel story in VIA)
Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter
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1999 Second place, Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter, Hiking the Chilkoot (travel story in VIA)
James Jones First Novel Fellowship finalist
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2000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship finalist for novel, The Last Cannoli, Legas, New York, 2000
2003 and 2004 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction
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2003 and 2004 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction finalist, for short stories A dying tiger moaned for drink (’03) and Virgin Vision (’04)
Kurt Vonnegut fiction competition
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2006 – Third place in the Kurt Vonnegut fiction competition; my short story Plot Theory has been published in the literary journal, North American Review.