2021
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of the Month Selection (August 2021)
Better Davis and Other Stories

"Kirkus Star" from Kirkus Reviews
Better Davis and Other Stories

2019
Pushcart Prize Nomination by Arts and Understanding (A&U): America's AIDS Magazine
"The Line"

2018
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of 2018 
Read by Strangers

Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of the Month Selection (October 2018)
Read by Strangers

"Kirkus Star" from Kirkus Reviews
Read by Strangers

2017
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of 2017 
At Danceteria and Other Stories

Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of the Month Selection (April 2017)
At Danceteria and Other Stories

"Kirkus Star" from Kirkus Reviews
2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Semi-finalist
At Danceteria and Other Stories

2016
Pushcart Prize Nomination by Squares & Rebels
"By Halston" from At Danceteria and Other Stories

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Awarded General Contributor in Fiction), August 2016

2015
Pushcart Prize Nomination by Driftwood Press
"A Goddess Lying Breathless in Carnage"

2013
The Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction (Finalist) by The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review
"Three-Sink Sink"

Rainbow Award (Finalist) Best LGBT Biography / Memoir / Non Fiction / Poetry
The Other Man: 21 Writers Speak Candidly About Sex, Love, Infidelity and Moving On