Awards

Creative Writing

Newark YSA Branch Poetry Competition, First Place (2023, Repentance Like an Ocean)

The Writer’s Garret Common Language Project, Selected for Anthology (2023, Dehiscence)

Local Gems Press NaPoWriMo Chapbook Contest, Honorable Mention and Offer of Publication (2019, Mortar and Pestle)

Provo Poetry Contest, Third Place (2019, Pest Control)

The Writer’s Garret Common Language Project, Top Ten and Selected for Anthology (2019, Dark Flowers)

NEOMED William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention (2019, Before / After)

Provo Poetry Micropoetry Contest, Top Ten (2018, Untitled Senryu)

Ann W. Hafen Memorial Winner (2018, Komsomolka)

Redrock Writers’ Founders Award Winner (2018, Rust and Tears)

Leroy Meagher Humor Award Winner (2018, Name Appeal)

Whitaker Award, Honorable Mention (2018, How to Say Feather in Sioux)

Pat Bader and Pat Kimber Memorial Winner (2018, How You Know)

UTSPS Tanka Category Winner (2018, Lotus)        

UTSPS Membership Contest, Second Place (2018, Christmas in Russia)

UTSPS Hungry Poets, Third Place (2018, Imagine a Summer Equinox)

Last Poet Standing at BYU-Idaho, Fifth Place (2013)

Friends of the American Fork Library Scary Story Contest Winner (2012, The Clown Progression)

NaNoWriMo Winner (2011, Dreambound)

Sons of the Utah Pioneers Writing Contest Winner (2011, In My Blood)