The Crazy Garden
Press 53, 2007

Rook
Runner-up, James Jones First Novel Fellowship
Second runner-up, William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing Awards: Novel 

Shorter fiction
"Snowed In!" (McGraw-Hill/SRA leveled reader elementary series)
"S" in the anthology Life Sentences
"The Shape of Grief" in the anthology Riverrun Story to Screenplay; optioned for screenplay

Shorter nonfiction
Feature and profile articles for Undiscovered
"Budd Schulberg and the Small, Still Voice" for Films for Two
Music features, profiles, and calendar for The Tap
"Somehow, the Scenes Still Happen" in The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press); reprinted in Dramatics
"Galileo: A Genius of Science" (McGraw-Hill/SRA leveled reader elementary series)
"Self-Portrait in Discards" in Conversely