Awards and Accolades

2020

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Winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Hugh Holton Award for the unpublished novel You Make Yourself Another.

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Cited on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Annual Readers List for the short story "A Drive-by on Chalmers Road?" 

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2021

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Anthony Award nominee as part of the anthology Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by SA Cosby which included the story "Lesson of the Lamp."

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2023

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Cited on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's  Annual Readers List for the story "Carver (and) [Company]."

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2024

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A reprint of "Carver (and) [Company" included in the anthology Twisted Voices: Stories from Ellery Queen.

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The short story "The Last Ruined Evening," originally published in Rock and a Hard Place magazine in 2023, cited as a Distinguished Story in the anthology Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024.

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2025

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Won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award for Best Flash Fiction for "Kargin the Necromancer," originally published by Mystery Tribune (Dec. 2024).

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"Strange," a poem originally published by the online journal Revolution John (March 2025), nominated by the editors for Best of the Net 2025.

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"An American Romance," a short story originally published by Literary Garage (Aug. 2025), nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Best Short Story of 2025.

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