Awards & Honors

       Finalist in 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award Competition (Supernatural Category), The Lion at the Falls

Third Place award winner in 2024 West Virginia Writers’ Competition (Book-Length Prose Category), The Lion at the Falls

Semifinalist in 2023 Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project Manuscript Contest, THE DESCENT: A Halloween Novel

First Place entry in Highland Park Poetry’s “The Roaring Twenties” 2025 Poetry Challenge (Adult Non-Resident Category)

Second Place entry in Friends of Volo Bog’s 2024 Peatland Poetry Challenge (Bog Culture Category), The Passport

‍ ‍Second Place award winner in the 2026 New Deal Writing Competition, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, Silverite

Second Place award winner in the 2025 New Deal Writing Competition, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, My Charges

Third Place award winner in the 2023 New Deal Writing Competition, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, The Bard of Fishkill Creek

Honorable Mention recipient in the 2022 Writer’s Digest 91st Annual Writing Competition (Non-Rhyming Poetry Category)

First Place award winner in 2018 South Dakota State Poetry Society Annual Contest (Portrait Category), Assumpsit

Third Place award winner in 2020 South Dakota State Poetry Society Annual Contest (Landscape Category), November Four Seven Bravo Alpha