BINC Foundation Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize
- Finalist: “Water People” (2026)
- The Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize was established by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg and his wife Liz Alter, a professor of biology at California State University Monterey Bay. The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation administers the prize.
- The prize is named for Kamil, who was executive vice president and publisher of Random House when she died in 2019. Her publishing career, spanning more than 40 years, began in the 1970s working in the children’s book division of Macmillan Publishers. Over those years she was known for recognizing new literary voices and introducing them to the public.
pioneertown
- “The Hug Machine” (creative nonfiction, 2026)
CIRQUE # 29 (vol. 15:1)
- “To Catch a King” (fiction, July 2025)
University of Montana Merriam Frontier Award
- Merriam Frontier Award Winner, 2025
- Awarded for excerpt of fiction manuscript, Water People
- Established by H.G. Merriam, Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing 1919-1954, the H.G. Merriam-Frontier Award recognizes distinguished achievement in student writing. Open to both graduate and undergraduate students, entries are judged by a committee of local writers.
Grace & Gravity
- Grit & Gravity, vol. XI
- “Wolf” (creative nonfiction, 2025)
- Furious Gravity, vol IX
- “The Jubilee” (short story, 2020)
- Award: Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
- “The Jubilee” (short story, 2020)
CutBank
- Issue 103 (Fiction Editor, 2025)
- Issue 102 (Fiction Editor, 2024)
- “This Great Pink Cloud: An Interview with Debra Magpie Earling” (Issue 101, interview, 2024)
- “A Single Thought Can Be a Portal: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch” (Issue 100, interview, 2024)
- “A Conversation Between Alexandra Teague and Pamela Huber” (interview, 2023)
The Mid-Atlantic Review
- “Migration Shift” (poem, 2024)
- “Cassiopeia” (poem, 2024)
- “Sussex County” (poem, 2024)
CommonLit
- “The End of Sleepovers” (short story, 2023)
- “Introduction to Modern Antisemitism” (nonfiction, 2022)
- “The Golden Ratio” (nonfiction, 2019)
- “Eating in Silence” (poem, 2017)
- “In An Amber Dome” (poem, 2017)
The Journal of Lost Time
- “To Escape” (creative nonfiction, 2023)
Beyond Words Literary Magazine
- “Cranes” (creative nonfiction, November 2022)
Delaware Bards Poetry Review
- “Dreamwork Ghazal” (poem, March 2023)
- “Pelicans” (poem, April 2022)
Atlanta Review
- “Salt Pond Eel Hunt” (poem, Fall 2021)
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)
- “South Lake, Tahoe” (creative nonfiction, July 2021)
- “Clams” (creative nonfiction, July 2021)
Still Point Arts Quarterly, 2021 Summer No. 42
- “Cribbage” (creative nonfiction, June 2021)
Rising Phoenix Review
- “Diptych: Two Americas in Capitol Hill” (poem, February 2021)
Grace & Gravity’s “Furious Gravity”, vol. IX
- “The Jubilee” (short story, 2020)
- Award: Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Glimmer Train
- Award: Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Jan/Feb 2018: “In Absentia”
- Award: Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Sep/Oct 2017: “The Middle Ground”
Il Girasole Romano
- Italian Travel Essays (2014)
American Literary Magazine
- “Bear Song” (short story, 2016)
- “Open Season” (poem, 2016)
- “Prescription for October” (poem, 2016)
- “Along for the Ride” (photography, 2014)
- “In an Amber Dome” (poem, 2015)
- “Eating in Silence” (poem, 2015)
- “For Sam, After a Party” (poem, 2015)
- “Hanged Somewhere-In-Between” (poem, 2014)
- “Disappeared in a Bed” (poem, 2014)
- “American Inflorescence” (poem, 2014)
- “Sheila & Ivy” (photography, 2014)
- “A Blood-Orange Moon” (short story, 2013)
- “Ground Dwellers” (poem, 2013)
- “Edges” (poem, 2012)
- “La Magia de la Bruja” (poem, 2012)
The Jane Goodall Institute: Jane Goodall’s Good for All News
Featured Articles:
- Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Coffee in Tanzania
- SDG Series Goal 15: Life on Land
- SDG Series Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG Series Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG Series Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- SDG Series Goal 5: Gender Equality
- JGI and the New Sustainable Development Goals
- From Pet to Protected: Chembo’s Story
- 55 Years at Gombe: Q&A with Jane on Origins of Life Work
- 55 Years at Gombe: Q&A with Jane on Growth of Life’s Work
- Tchimpounga Mandrills Successfully Released Back into Wild
AWOL Magazine
- AWOL Issue 19 (Editor-in-Chief, 2016)
- The New American Poet: Kyle Dargan (2016)
- AWOL Issue 18 (Editor-in-Chief, 2015)
- Gone Globe: Fighting the Sixth Mass Extinction (2015)
- AWOL Zine 03: The Unheard Voices Issue (Editor-in-Chief, 2015)
- AWOL Zine 02: The Activism Issue (Minimag Editor, 2015)
- HIV Epidemic Sweeps Indiana (2015)
- College Cuisine Confessions: Photo Essay (2014)
- Policing for Profit: When Your Property Does the Time (2013)
- Life After Torture: The Reality of “Forced Interrogation” (2013) (Full magazine here)
- Lakota Stake Their Claim on the Earth: Sioux Natives Buy Back Sacred Land (Cover Story, 2012) (Full magazine here)
