Pushcart Nomination for "Sisters" (2024)

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LDSPMA Praiseworthy Award for Poetry published in 2023 for Here

 

Second Place, “Parallel Universes,” Utah Original Writing Competition 2023

 

Pushcart Nomination, “A Plan of Salvation,” Irreantum Dec. 2022

 

Association for Mormon Letters Award for Poetry, 2023, Here (BCC Press 2023)

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First prize, Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest 2021, “What Her Missionary Son’s Letter Didn’t Say”

 

Pushcart Nomination, “Hot Flash,” Stonecoast Review 13 (Summer 2020)

 

Association for Mormon Letters Award for Poetry, 2019, Homespun and Angel Feathers (BCC Press 2019)

 

Notable in Best American Essays 2019: “Systole, Diastole,” JMWW (January 11, 2018)

 

Second Place, Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest, BYU Studies Quarterly, 2019 for poem, "First Argument"

 

Second Place, Richard H. Cracroft Personal Essay Contest, BYU Studies Quarterly, 2018 for essay, "Fine, Thanks" (published BYU Studies 57:4, 2018)

 

Third Place, Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest, BYU Studies Quarterly, 2017 for poem, “My Son’s Guitar Class”

 

Honorable Mention, Utah Original Writing Competition, 2017 for essay, “Systole, Diastole”

 

Pushcart Nomination, "Notes on the Back of the Recipe," North Dakota Quarterly 2015  https://ndquarterly.org/2015/12/15/pushcart-nominees-for-2015/

 

Third Place, BYU Studies Quarterly Poetry Contest, 2014, for "Horizon.

 

First Prize, Vera Hinckley Mayhew Contest in creative nonfiction (BYU), 2014 for “Finally Gone”

 

First Prize, Hart-Larson poetry contest (BYU), 2014, for “My Teenager Gets His Wisdom Teeth Out”

 

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