The Book Excellence Awards selected Realizing River City as the 2018 winner of the memoir category.

"Dwelling Place" was named a Notable Essay by The Best American Essays 2018.

Read it in my new collection, I Don't Belong Here.

Realizing River City

won the Nonfiction-Memoir Silver Medal in the 2017 Readers' Favorite International Book Contest.

I Don't Belong Here is now available from New Meridian Arts Press!

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