Prizes:
Colorado Authors League
Best Essay Award, “A Shape-Shifting Land,” 2011
Orlando Nonfiction Award
A Room of Her Own Foundation, “These Things I Can Love,” 2009
Cutthroat Literary Award
Finalist, Rick DeMaris Fiction Competition, 2005
Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship
Poetry Fellowship Award, 2003
Mountains & Plains Book Award Finalist, Novel Category;
Shifting Stars, 1997
Wyoming Writers, Inc.
Annual nonfiction contest, Third Place, 1994.
Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship
Prose Fellowship Award, 1993.
Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award
Sole Honorable Mention, 1993.
Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award
Sole Honorable Mention, 1993.
Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship
Honorable Mention, 1992.
Wyoming Writers, Inc.
Annual fiction contest, Second Place, 1991.
Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award
Honorable Mention, 1991.