Reviews of Revolver

@Dawning of a Brighter Day, by Julie J. Nichols, 2019.

“The Gift of Language” by Michael Andrew Ellis, 2019.

@ByCommonConsent, 2018

@Amazon

@Goodreads

Podcast Interviews

“The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction Authors’ Panel” @Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts. 2023.

“Why We Need Feminists in the Mormon Church” @Making Waves with Eleisha Martel Clayton. 2021.

Reviews by Me

A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Works of Maurine Whipple. Edited by Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson. By Common Consent Press, 2020. Review coming soon at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories by Michael Fillerup. Signature Books, 2022. Review coming soon at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

Caldera Ridge by Jack Harrell. Signature Books, 2018.
 
How the Mistakes Were Made by Tyler McMahon. St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
 
God’s Dogs by Mitch Wieland.  Southern Methodist University Press, 2009.
 

Selected Awards 

Pushcart Prize Nomination. “Reluctant, Radiant.” Poem. 2023.

FIDA (Faculty International Development Award) through Boise State University and the United Studies Abroad Consortium. Summer 2019. Viterbo, Italy. 

               (the link loads a set of blog posts about the experience]

Finalist for United Labor Agency and Red Giant Books forthcoming anthology Working. “The Hardness of Steel.” Short Story. Spring 2019.

Finalist for the Association of Mormon Letters Award for Short Fiction, for Revolver. 2019.

Funding grant for promotion of Revolver. Alexa Rose Foundation. June 2018.

Finalist for the Association of Mormon Letters award for the Short Story. “Jane’s Journey.” March 2018.

Funding grant for creative nonfiction at Esalen Institute. Alexa Rose Foundation. May 2017.

Finalist for the Association of Mormon Letters Award for the Short Story. “The Mandelbrot Set.” April 2017.

Funding grant. “Engaging Pedagogies for Student Success in ENGL 202: Making a Good Course Great.” National Science Foundation. May 2016.

Finalist for the Vandermey Nonfiction Prize. “Imagine a Girl.” Essay. Ruminate. Fall 2016.

Sunstone Short Fiction First Prize. “The Mandelbrot Set.” Short Story. Summer 2015.

Sunstone Short Fiction Third Prize (tie). “Jane’s Journey.” Short story. Summer 2015.

Residency. Writers in the Schools at Marian Pritchett Academy. Boise, ID. 2013-2014.

Fellowship in Literature. Idaho Commission on the Arts. 2010-2013.

Pushcart Prize Nomination. “Revolver.” Short story. 2012.

Brookie and D. K. Brown Short Fiction Prize. “Name.” Sunstone Magazine. 2012.

Fellowship. Summer Residency. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Amherst, Virginia. Summer 2011.

Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Short Fiction. “Revolver” (short story). New Letters Magazine. 2010.

Best New American Voices Nomination. “Language of Desire.” Short story. May 2007.