2007 PASS Award for Literature from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, for "Journey Toward Justice," a memoir by Dennis Fritz (ghostwritten with Susan Ferguson)

Literary Elephant Contest, Northern Arizona University, 2007, "In an Elephant's Eye"

First Place, Short Story, Missouri Writers Guild, 2005, "Driving the Dead Man's Car"

First Place, Short Story, John Gilgun Literary Contest, "Mochila Review," 2004, "Not the Killing Kind"