Recognition

Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Awards, Fiction (2010)
Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction: Chattahoochee Review (2004)
Humor Prize: Santa Barbara Writer's Conference (2002)
Phantastic Fiction Prize: Santa Barbara Writer's Conference (2002)
"Clean" (screenplay written with Fran Davis)
- 2nd Place: Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association Contest (1999)
- Finalist: The New Century Writers Awards Contest (1999)
"T-Wrecks" (screenplay written with Fran Davis)
- 1st Place: Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association Contest (1998)
- Semi-Finalist: The New Century Writers Awards Contest (1998)
Fiction Prize: Southern California Writer's Conference, San Diego (1997)
Finalist: 1996 Chesterfield Film Company - Writer's Film Project
Finalist: 1996 Glimmer Train short story contest
Nonfiction Prize: Santa Barbara Writer's Conference (1996)
Phoenix Award Fiction Prize: Santa Barbara Writer's Conference (1995)