Honor & Awards:
Conference Travel Grant Awards, Department of English, University of Washington, Spring 2007, Winter 2008, Spring 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010.
Nominee, Pushcart Prize, short story, “Even Numb Skin Holds the Blood Inside,” 2006.
Honorable Mention for Best Novel: “The Conversion of Richard Abrams,” Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, 2004.
Summer Research Grant, Center for Engineering Leadership, University of Utah, 2004. Research on integrating critical thinking and writing curricula into engineering curriculum, Advisor April Kedrowicz, Director.
Winner, Scowcroft Prize for Fiction: “Forced Pendulum,” University of Utah Department of English, 2002.
National Security Education Program Grant for international travel and study to Cameroon, 1994.