Selected Grants and Honors

Creative Writing Course Development Project, proposal award from the Teaching and Learning Center and Center for Distance Learning and Academic Technology, curriculum design and development, 2006-7.

Research Development Grant, summer 2006.

SALSI Grant, 2005. UTHSCSA-UTSA.

Centrum Writers’ Residency, Washington State, 2005.

PEN Texas Award, 2004.

Winnow Press First Book Contest winner, 2004.

Pecan Grove Chapbook Contest winner, 2004.

Honors Alliance Faculty Award, 2003.

Faculty Development Leave, fall 2003.

Writer’s League of Texas Writer’s Fellowship, May 2002.

First Place, Creative Non-Fiction Essay Contest (Writer’s League of Texas,) fall 2001.

First Place, Mid-American Review Fineline Award, (short fiction) fall 2001.

Editor’s Choice Award, Mid-American Review Fineline Award, (short fiction) fall 2001.

Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2001.

Dean’s Circle Award, June 2000.

Vermont Studio Fellowship, May 1998.

AWP Intro Award, 1995.