Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Fiction: "Ivan and Misha: A novel in stories"

Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: "Ivan and Misha: A novel in stories"

The Gina Berriault Award from San Francisco State University

Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize

MacDowell Fellowship

Scholarships to Napa Valley Writers Conference and Squaw Valley Community of Writers

"Arithmetic" performed onstage by San Francisco's Word for Word Acting Company

"Ivan and Misha", "It Takes All Kinds", "Left on Monseigneur O'Brien" all anthologized in the Best Gay Short Stories anthologies, Lethe Press