Honorable Mention in the 2022 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for “A Garden in the Desert”
1st Place Nonfiction in the 2017 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for "The Mule Deer"
Finalist for 2019 James Beard Award for Investigative Reporting, for
“‘It’s Not Fair, Not Right’: How America Treats Its Black Farmers”
“Sucked Dry” wins 3rd place for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2022 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting
“Letter to America” included in the anthology Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity Press, 2020)
Finalist for 2019 Salute of Excellence Award, for exemplary coverage of African/African-American people or issues, awarded by the National Association of Black Journalists
2020 Winner of SABEW Best in Business Award for “America’s Rural Radio Stations Are Vanishing”
2nd place, Features, 2019 North American Agriculture Journalists Writing Contest for “‘It’s Not Fair, Not Right: How America Treats Its Black Farmers”
“Why Are Farmers Killing Themselves?” won Honorable Mention in the National Press Foundation’s 2017 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting
2017
1st place: Community Arts Reporting
2nd place: Community Personality Profile
2nd place: Statewide Arts Reporting
"The Hunted" selected as a nonfiction winner for the Sun Dress Publications 2017 Best of the Net Anthology (Judge: Nicole Walker)
"The Hunted" nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2018)
"The Hunted" selected by Guernica as best memoir piece of 2017 (Memoir Monday collaboration)
“Becoming Janos” selected for 2017 Best of Food Writing anthology
“Quitting Season” selected for 2016 Best of Food Writing anthology
Sundress Publication's 30 Most Transformative Essays of 2016
Fiction Finalist - 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Nominated for Dzanc Books Best of the Web Anthology (2011)
“Precarious Things” nominated for Pushcart Prize (2010)
“Precarious Things” won 3rd place in the 2008 Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Contest
2016
1st Place: Community Human Interest Reporting
1st Place: Community Environmental Reporting
3rd Place: Community Personality Profile
3rd Place: Statewide Human Interest Writing