Artist Initiative Grant. Minnesota State Arts Board, 2014
“The Salsa Garden,” Avery Jules Hopwood Award in Nonfiction. University of Michigan, 2008
Van A. Burd Award, Thesis Research Grant. University of Michigan, 2008
“Flight,” Avery Jules Hopwood Award in Short Fiction. University of Michigan, 2007
“If, Minnesota,” Finalist in Very-Short Fiction, Glimmer Train. Summer 2007
“Bjorn’s Bird,” First Place, Ann Doty Fiction Award. Brigham Young University, 2005
“The Silence,” Second Place, Fiction, Vera Hinckley Mayhew Contest. Brigham Young University, 2005
“Conceptualize.Collate.Enigma,” Honorable Mention, Poetry, Vera Hinckley Mayhew Contest. Brigham Young University, 2005