Book Awards

National Outdoor Book Award, winner: 2015
Finding Abbey


Vermont Book Award Finalist: 2016
Finding Abbey



Colorado Book Award Finalist: 2016
Finding Abbey

Utah Book Award, winner: 2015
Finding Abbey



New Mexico & Arizona Book Award, ​winner: 2015
Finding Abbey






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Other Awards

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The Atlantic Student Writers’ Contest Finalist:

• Names top five graduate student writers in America in creative nonfiction. Spring 2005.

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Backcountry Magazine:

• Poet laureate of Backcountry Magazine from 2021 through the present.

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​Pushcart Prize Nominations:

• Nominated in 2005, 2007, 2009 (twice), 2013, 2015 (twice), 2016, 2017, 2018.

Norwich University's Military Writers' Symposium:

• Writer-in-residence for the Military Writers' Symposium, 2022 - present.

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Fugue Nonfiction Literary Award Winner:

• “What We Learned About Love We Learned from the Quarries.” Summer 2011.

​San Juan National Forest, Artist-in-Residence

• Served a week-long appointment as an artist-in-residence. Durango, CO. June 2011.

​SLAB Literary Journal

• Two pieces were named as the best of SLAB's first fifteen years of publishing.

​Plainsongs Award Poem Winner:

• “Majestic Prayers of Bangor.” Spring 2009.