Honors & Appearances
Honors
- Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, Runner-Up, 2015
- Moment-Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Second Place, 2015
- Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, General Gay Fiction Category, 2014
- Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, 2012
- Leapfrog Fiction Contest, Semifinalist, 2012
- Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Winner, 2010
- Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Honorable Mention, 2010
- Associated Writing Programs Award Series in the Novel, Runner-up, 1992
- Yale College Writing Awards: Wallace Fiction Prize, Veech Prize for fiction writing, Willets Prize for creative writing
Appearances
Make Out Room, Litquake San Francisco, October 2015
La Movida wine bar and community kitchen, InsideStorytime reading, December 2014
Litquake San Francisco, October 2014
Litquake Palo Alto, August 2014
California Institute of Integral Studies, Mission at Tenth publication party and reading, September 2014
Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Lambda Awards Finalist Reading, May 2014
San Francisco Public Library, Lambda Awards Finalist Reading, May 2014
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah, April 2014
Books Inc., Castro, San Francisco, March 2014
Birchbark Books, Minneapolis, January 2014
Silicon Valley Jewish Community Center, Los Gatos, Schmooze with the Author, December 2013
Bluestockings bookstore, New York, November 2013
Barnes & Noble, Princeton, November 2013
Mosaic television program, KPIX, November 2013 (see News & Reviews page for link to video)
Bird & Beckett bookstore, San Francisco, November 2013
Skylight Books, Los Angeles, November 2013
Litquake San Francisco, J Weekly Litcrawl reading, October 2013
Litquake San Francisco, “The Art of the Short Story” panel, October 2013
Litquake Palo Alto, “The Beauty of Brevity” panel, August 2013
Nehirim West, reading, March 2013
Moment Magazine & Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Manhattan Jewish Community Center, group reading, October 2011 – [Listen] | [Original, Complete Recording]