AWARDS (selected)

Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, The Baker Artist Awards, 2023.
Artist's Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2023.
Creativity Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2022.
Gene S. Stuart Award, “The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves,” presented by the Society for American Archaeology, 2022.
Individual Artist Award for Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council, 2019.
Creative Writing Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, 2018.
Literary Arts Awardee, Rubys Grant, October 2017.
Grant Awardee, Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, 2017.
Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in the Literary Arts, The Baker Artist Awards, 2017.
Notable Essay, "Notes from a Suicide" , Best American Essays 2016.
Award Recipient, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Fall 2015.
Pushcart Prize Nominee for "On Nostalgia", 2017.
Pushcart Prize Nominee for "Notes From a Suicide", 2016.
Hrushka Nonfiction Prize Winner, for "On Nostalgia." Judged by Steven Church, 2015.
Short Fiction Winner, “A Modern Girl’s Guide to Childbirth,” Wigleaf Top 50, selected by Roxane Gay, 2015.
Gold Medal Winner, ASBPE Awards of Excellence, Architect Magazine, 2014.
Pushcart Prize Nominee for “Danish Modern,” 2013.
Individual Artist Award in Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council, 2013.
Top 10 Public Interest Design Article, “Children of the Revolution” Public Interest Design and Good Magazine, 2013.
Roger D. Redden Award for achievement in the field of architecture writing, The Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2011.
Maryland Excellence in Journalism, 1st Place, Human Interest, Society of Professional Journalists, 2003.
Maryland Excellence in Journalism, 1st Place, General Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, 2002.