“That Box You Keep Hidden.” WestSide Story. May 2007.
In the Middle of Infinity.” Spoiled Ink. December 2005.
“Carnival.” Pindeldyboz. 2004. Vol. 16, No. 5; Fall edition.
Family History.” Glimmer Train: Winter 1997, Issue 21.
“Angels Are Like Electrons.” Denver Quarterly: Spring 1995, Vol. 29, No. 4.
“Language Lessons.” New Letter: Spring 1995, Vol. 61, No.2.
“The Assurance of Things Unseen.” American Literary Review: Fall 1993, Vol. IV, No.2.
“Accidents.” Roberts Writing Awards Annual. January 1993.
“Washing the Corpse.” The Nocturnal Lyric. June 1992.
“Something to Hold Onto.” Innisfree: Spring 1992, Vol. XI, No. 6.
“The Easy Things to Remember.” Wordsmith. Spring 1992.
Second prize in the WestSide Story Contest, 2007.
Finalist in the James Fellowship for the Novel, 1999, for Why It’s Not Forever.
Finalist in the James Fellowship for the Novel, 1998, for Frank Alexander’s Part In It.
First Prize in the 1994 New Letters Literary Awards.
American Academy of Poets Award for Fiction, 1994.
Honorable mention in the 1992 Roberts Writing Awards.
Honorable mention in Sun Dog’s “The World’s Greatest Short Short Story Contest” 1991.