Honors & Awards
2012
"Boy with a Propeller Head" (from Birkensnake)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, January 31, 2012
"Zero Hour" (from Boston Review)
mentioned by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts for Something a Woman Wrote #18, January 10, 2012
2011
"A World Called Little Jimmy" (a chapbook manuscript)
runner-up in Drafty Attic Press's New Word Order Publishing Project
"Hunger Strike" (from Potomac Review)
reprinted in Verse Daily, June 25, 2011
"Quarter of a Body" (from Thieves Jargon)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, June 24, 2011
"Case# 659: Diego Sorna, 38"
tied for 3rd Place, "A Picture Worth 500 words" contest, Tattoo Highway (California State University)
2010
"As Long As You Burn" (from Eschatology)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, December 12, 2010
"We Figure the Leaves"
nominated by Hobart for Best of the Web 2011
"A monograph, a treatise"
nominated by A River & Sound Review for Best of the Web 2011
2009
"The Tree of Forgiveness"
nominated for the 2010 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"Conrad, in the Autopsy Room"
nominated for the 2010 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
nominated by Dreams and Nightmares for the Pushcart Prize
"The Doll Handler Tells the Truth about Them"
nominated by Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal for the Pushcart Prize
"Making Rounds"
nominated by Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal for the Pushcart Prize
2008
"Pavlov’s Best Friend"
nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"Death of a Soul"
nominated by The Driftwood Review for the Pushcart Prize
"A Lesser Evil"
nominated by Silenced Press for the Pushcart Prize
"Once"
reprinted in the Dwarf Stars Award 2008 Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"version 9: breakfast"
reprinted in the Dwarf Stars Award 2008 Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association
2007
"Bone Man"
nominated by Kaleidotrope for the Pushcart Prize
"Myopic"
Honorable Mention, "A Picture Worth 500 words" contest, Tattoo Highway (California State University)
"The Most Secret Rooms"
nominated for the 2008 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
2006
"Family Secrets"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007
"Cold Earth"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007
"A Spacewalker Dreams"
2006 James Baker Award for Genre Poetry, Sam’s Dot Publishing
2005
"The Thin Men"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006
"Silicon Gods"
Joint 3rd Place, Data Dump SF Poetry Award, 2005
2004
"Collapsing the Wavefunction"
2004 James Baker Award for Genre Poetry, Sam’s Dot Publishing
"Boy with a Propeller Head" (from Birkensnake)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, January 31, 2012
"Zero Hour" (from Boston Review)
mentioned by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts for Something a Woman Wrote #18, January 10, 2012
2011
"A World Called Little Jimmy" (a chapbook manuscript)
runner-up in Drafty Attic Press's New Word Order Publishing Project
"Hunger Strike" (from Potomac Review)
reprinted in Verse Daily, June 25, 2011
"Quarter of a Body" (from Thieves Jargon)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, June 24, 2011
"Case# 659: Diego Sorna, 38"
tied for 3rd Place, "A Picture Worth 500 words" contest, Tattoo Highway (California State University)
2010
"As Long As You Burn" (from Eschatology)
mentioned in Fiction Daily, December 12, 2010
"We Figure the Leaves"
nominated by Hobart for Best of the Web 2011
"A monograph, a treatise"
nominated by A River & Sound Review for Best of the Web 2011
2009
"The Tree of Forgiveness"
nominated for the 2010 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"Conrad, in the Autopsy Room"
nominated for the 2010 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
nominated by Dreams and Nightmares for the Pushcart Prize
"The Doll Handler Tells the Truth about Them"
nominated by Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal for the Pushcart Prize
"Making Rounds"
nominated by Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal for the Pushcart Prize
2008
"Pavlov’s Best Friend"
nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"Death of a Soul"
nominated by The Driftwood Review for the Pushcart Prize
"A Lesser Evil"
nominated by Silenced Press for the Pushcart Prize
"Once"
reprinted in the Dwarf Stars Award 2008 Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association
"version 9: breakfast"
reprinted in the Dwarf Stars Award 2008 Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association
2007
"Bone Man"
nominated by Kaleidotrope for the Pushcart Prize
"Myopic"
Honorable Mention, "A Picture Worth 500 words" contest, Tattoo Highway (California State University)
"The Most Secret Rooms"
nominated for the 2008 Rhysling Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
2006
"Family Secrets"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007
"Cold Earth"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007
"A Spacewalker Dreams"
2006 James Baker Award for Genre Poetry, Sam’s Dot Publishing
2005
"The Thin Men"
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006
"Silicon Gods"
Joint 3rd Place, Data Dump SF Poetry Award, 2005
2004
"Collapsing the Wavefunction"
2004 James Baker Award for Genre Poetry, Sam’s Dot Publishing
