Awards and Accolades

2020

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Winner of the Hugh Holton Award from the Mystery Writers of America, Midwest Chapter for the unpublished novel You Make Yourself Another.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 comedic 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 from Rock and a Hard Place Press, which included the short 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 private detective short story "Carver (and) [Company]."

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2024

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A reprint of "Carver (and) [Company" is included in the anthology Twisted Voices: Stories from Ellery Queen alongside stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Iain Rankin, and others.

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

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2025

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Nominated for the Derringer Award for Best Flash Fiction Story for "Kargin the Necromancer," originally published by Mystery Tribune (Dec. 2024).

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