Awards

2013 – Emerging Artist Award, Kentucky Arts Council (Nonfiction)

2011 – Honorable Mention, Next Great Writer Award,  Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning (Fiction)

2011 – Judge’s Pick, Still Journal Literary Contest (Nonfiction)

2010 – Judge’s Pick, Still Journal Literary Contest (Nonfiction)

2004 –  Second Honorable Mention, Nida F. Jones Ingram Memorial Contest Kentucky State Poetry Society (Poetry)

Grants

2014 – Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women (Fiction)

2014 – Arts Meets Activism Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women (JUMP! Project)

2014 – HP Living Progress Grant (JUMP! Project)

2012 – Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women (Memoir)

2010 – Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women (Memoir)