Literary Accomplishments:
– Honorable Mention for Poetry at 2023 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards: Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022).
– Winner: 2022 Poetry category, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors (Volume 11) for “Tar”
– Winner: 2020 Lake Superior Writers Annual Contest (Creative Nonfiction) for “I Have No Idea”
– Winner: 2019 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem “How Could You Do That?” through the literary journal Line of Advance.
– Honorable Mention for Fiction at Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards: Going Coastal (North Star Press, 2017) by Lake Superior Writers. Includes “The Heart Under the Lake” by Eric Chandler
– Author of Hugging This Rock: Poems of Earth & Sky, Love & War (Middle West Press, 2017)
– Winner: Nonfiction for the Veterans Day edition of the Columbia Journal for the story “The Big Red One” in November 2017.
– Author of two e-books: Outside Duluth and Down In It.
– Winner: 2017 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem “Air Born” through the literary journal Line of Advance.
– Winner: 2016 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem “The Stars and Stripes is Free” through the literary journal Line of Advance.
– Winner: 2015 Lake Superior Writers Annual Contest (Short Story) for “Trail Through the Tamaracks.”
– Honorable Mention (Creative Nonfiction): The Talking Stick (Vol. 24), September 2015, for “Buckle Up.”
– Pushcart Prize Nomination (Creative Nonfiction): Sleet Magazine editor, Susan Solomon, for “Chemical Warfare,” Spring 2014.
– Honorable Mention (Poetry): The Talking Stick (Vol. 22), September 2013, for “Bubble.”
– 3rd Place (Short Story): 2011 Lake Superior Writers Annual Contest for “The Iron Ranger.”
– Honorable Mention (Creative Nonfiction): The Talking Stick (Vol. 18), September 2009, for “Grace from a Monk’s Hood.”
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