Press & Awards

Maine Public All Books Considered with Bill Nemitz, May 2025

“What’s in a Name? Only Everything,” Guest Post on Read Her Like an Open Book, November 2024

“Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World,” Literary Hub, September 5, 2024

What’s the TEA? with Gays Reading host Jason Blitman, September 2024

Behind the Stack with Brett Benner, September 2024

Interview with Washington Independent Review of Books, September 2024

Interview with Hasty Book List, September 2024

Where the Forest Meets the River + Indie Next List, September 2024

Oprah Daily: The 28 Best Books of Fall, August 2024

Maine Public All Books Considered with Bill Nemitz, April 2024

The Road to Dalton + NPR’s Books We Love List, November 2023

The Road to Dalton + Fall 2023 Reading Group Indie Next List, Dazzling Debuts, October 2023

“Everything is Connected: A Reading List of Linked Stories,” Literary Hub, June 7, 2023

Interview with Aspiring Author, June 5, 2023

The Road to Dalton + Indie Next List, June 2023

What, Why, How Interview with Writer Linda K. Sienkiewicz, May 8, 2023

The Road to Dalton named winner of the Maine Literary Book Award for Fiction, 2024

“Sixteen, Summer” awarded third place in the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition, February 2024

“New Mercies” selected as a finalist for the Maine Literary Awards, 2023

“Yellow Bird” nominated by South 85 Journal for a Pushcart Prize, December 2022

“Yellow Bird” awarded flash fiction winner in the 2022 Julia Peterkin Literary Award for Flash Fiction & Poetry, October 2022

“Dirty Shirley” selected as one of 25 winners in the Fractured Lit Anthology II Contest, July 2022

“Romance” (excerpted from The Road to Dalton) selected as a finalist for the Maine Literary Awards, 2021

“Avian Elegies” selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2021