Awards & Fellowships

• 2015
• Finalist: Heavy Feather Review 4.2 Fiction Chapbook Contest: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
• Shortlist: 3-Day Novel Contest: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• 2011
• Teach@Tübingen Scholarship: Eberhard Karls Universität: Tübingen, Germany
• Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship: University of Denver: Denver, Colorado, USA

• 2008
• First Place: University of Denver Writing Program “Urban Nature” Writing Contest: Denver, Colorado, USA

• 1996-1997
• Fulbright Scholarship: Universität Bremen: Bremen, Germany