AWARDS
Faculty Research Enhancement Program Grant, Angelo State University, 2025
Scholarship Recipient in Prose, Napa Valley Writers Conference, 2024
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Houston, 2024
Teaching Excellence Award, Office of the Provost, University of Houston, 2023
Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Houston Creative Writing Program, 2023
Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction list, Best American Essays, 2022
Donald Barthelme Memorial Prize in Nonfiction, Inprint, Houston, 2022
“Relax Your Face, Clint.” Judge: Allie Rowbottom
Pushcart Prize nomination, 2017, 2018, 2021
Media and Moving Image Prize, University of Houston, 2021
“Relax Your Face, Clint.” Jury: Brian Belovarac, Yoon Kim, Rick Quan
Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, Inprint, Houston, 2019
Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston, 2019
Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, third place, Virginia Tech University, 2019
“Maid of the Mist.” Judge: Corinna Vallianatos
Byron Society of America Travel Grant, University of Virginia, 2018
Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, first place, Virginia Tech University, 2017
“Cutting.” Judge: Susanna Daniel
READINGS & PRESENTATIONS
Third Annual Faculty Research Expo, Angelo State University
Poster Presentation, “Writing Long-Form Creative Projects: The Novel” 2026
Texas Association of Creative Writers Conference, Dora Lee Langdon Cultural and Education Center, 2026
Panelist, “Taking Off and Landing: Teaching Beginnings and Endings in Creative Prose.”
29th Angelo State Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, Angelo State University
Interview, “A Conversation with Colson Whitehead” 2026
Texas Association of Creative Writers Conference, Dora Lee Langdon Cultural and Education Center, 2025
Panelist, “Writing Beyond Limits: The Advantages of Being a Multi-Genre Author.”
Boldface Writers Conference, Workshop Leaders Reading, University of Houston, 2024
27th Angelo State Writers Conference, Angelo State University, 2024
Gulf Coast Reading Series, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, 2023
26th Angelo State Writers Conference, Angelo State University, 2023
Poetry & Prose Reading Series, University of Houston, 2019
Deschutes Literary Reading Series, Deschutes Brewery Tasting Room, Roanoke, VA, 2018
International Student Byron Conference, Missolonghi, Greece, 2018
Presenter, accepted paper, “The Byronic Hero in Blood Meridian”
Reading and Book Release for Ed Falco, Virginia Tech University, 2017
Introduced Ed Falco for a reading from his book of poems, Wolf Moon Blood Moon