WINNER: Silver Medal for 2020 Best Nonfiction South from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)
FINALIST: Inspirational, Women’s Issues, and Best Cover Design categories from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Chosen among 2019 “Arkansas Gems” by the Arkansas Center for the Book
Panelist at the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival
Panelist at Columbia University’s Seminar for Narrative, Health, and Social Justice
Panelist at The Louisiana Book Festival
Panelist at The Arkansas Literary Festival (now Six Bridges Book Festival)
Writer of monthly column “Arkansas Books” for The Springs Magazine. 2018-Present.
“A Craft Conversation with Natasha Williams, Author of The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father's Madness,” forthcoming in The Masters Review, Spring 2026.
“Unruly,” forthcoming in The Sun, February 2026.
“Blind Curves,” The Citron Review, Fall 2025 issue, October 5, 2025.
“Rejection as Revelation: How Rejection Shaped our Best Work,” co-authored with Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Brevity Blog, July 8, 2025.
“The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: An Conversation with Natasha Williams,” interview for The Rumpus, May 5, 2025.
“My Daughter Has 1 Thing In Common With Barbie Due To A Rare Condition. Here’s What I Want People She Encounters To Know,” HuffPost Personal, December 31, 2024.
“Above, Below: An Abecedarian,” ionosphere, Vol. II, issue 1, January 21, 2025.
“We Are Animals: A Conversation with Jennifer Case,” interview for The Rumpus, November 4, 2024.
“Athens, Revised,” “Memoir Monday” selection, Monday, November 4, 2024.
“Athens, Revised,” The Sun. August 2024.
Podcast Guest, “Let’s Discuss ‘Athens, Revised,” Article Club with Mark Isero. October 31, 2024.
“The Cat,” Marrow Magazine. Issue 9, May 2024. Nominated for Best of the Net.
40+ Literary Magazines That Publish Longform Creative Nonfiction. Et Alia Press Voices Blog. October 1, 2023.
“Nesting.” Creative Nonfiction Magazine’s Sunday Short Reads #173. March 6, 2022.
“Summer Reading with Kids: The Best Advice From Authors and Teachers.” Scary Mommy. June 9, 2021.
“Nesting.” Taking Flight: A Beautiful Things Chapbook. Forthcoming from River Teeth.
“Nesting.” Stone Gathering: A Reader. Volume II, Issue 4. Spring 2021.
“Supporting the Most Vulnerable.” Arkansas Life. Print edition, Spring Issue/April 2020. Digital edition, April 9, 2020.
“Nesting.” River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things.” March 2, 2020.
“What to Read When You Need Lady Power in Numbers.” The Rumpus. April 2019.
“What to Read When You’re Ready to Rethink Women’s Fashion.” The Rumpus. November 2018.
"My Friend Died of Cancer, but Lives in Moss." Catapult. June 2018.
"Red: Our Aura Reading." Miracle Monocle. Issue No. 10, April 2018. Winner of the 2018 Miracle Monocle Editors' Award for Emerging Writers. Pushcart Nominated.
"The Email that Changed Everything." The Rumpus. December 2017.
"Q&A: Sayantani DasGupta Wants to Empower Girls to Slay Their Demons." Ms. Magazine Blog. December 2017.
"Q&A: Comedian Kelli Dunham on Storytelling as a Radical, Transformative Act." Ms. Magazine Blog. May 2017.
"Anthologies Live: An Editor on the Work and Power of a Themed Collection." The Woven Tale Press. May 2017.
"Q&A: Laura Raborn's Art Uses Trump's Words to Support Planned Parenthood." Ms. Magazine Blog. March 2017.
"Transmuting Trump: Arkansas Artist Laura Raborn Transforms Trump Quotes into Funds for Planned Parenthood." Interview. Entropy Magazine. March 2017.
Marked: How Physical Scars Help Write the Stories of our Lives. Blog for Psychology Today.
"Tissue: A Scar Story." The Woven Tale Press, Volume V #1. February 2017.
"Tissue." Scars: An Anthology. Fall 2015.
"We Scar, We Heal, We Rise." Scars: An Anthology. Fall 2015.
"We Scar, We Heal, We Rise." The Best American Essays 2013, notable essay.
"We Scar, We Heal, We Rise." Anderbo.com 2012 Creative Nonfiction Contest finalist with $150 prize (no winner announced).
"Saw." NPR's Tales from the South. Broadcast Spring 2008; published in Tales from the South: Volume III.
"Hoarding Pearl's Beets." NPR's Tales from the South. Broadcast Fall 2007; published in Tales from the South: Volume III.
Fellow, Mid-America Arts Alliance 2025 Catalyze Grant Recipient of $10,000 practice-based grant. June 2025.
Panelist, Association of Writers and Writing Programs “AWP” Conference, “Divergent, Delusional, and Inspired: The Stories We Choose to Tell,” a reading and panel discussion. Los Angeles, CA. March 28, 2025.
Podcast Guest, “Let’s Discuss ‘Athens, Revised,” Article Club with Mark Isero. October 31, 2024.
Panelist for Arkansas State Library Webinar “Books Build Us Up: 2024 Great Reads from Arkansas.” August 14, 2024.
Recipient of $500 Grant from The Arkansas Arts Council's Sally A. Williams Artist Fund to attend the 2024 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Kansas City, MO. Spring, 2024.
Recipient of $500 Grant from The Arkansas Arts Council's Sally A. Williams Artist Fund to attend the 2023 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Seattle, WA. Spring, 2023.
Panelist at University of Central Arkansas Arka Text Festival. March 2, 2022. Publisher’s Panel with David Scott Cunningham (University of Arkansas Press) and Danielle Jackson (Oxford American).
Speaker/Presenter to Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Docent Group via Zoom December 7, 2020 about Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives.
Webinar Panelist for “Virtual Event Planning” Panel presented by the University of Central Arkansas Division of Outreach and Community Engagement Nonprofit Support Series via Zoom, November 11, 2020. Presented on events for the virtual Women Make Arkansas Market and the But First, Save 10 drive-through book launch.
Awards for Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives. WINNER: Silver Medal for 2020 Best Nonfiction South from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs); FINALIST: Inspirational, Women’s Issues, and Best Cover Design categories from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards; Chosen among 2019 “Arkansas Gems” by the Arkansas Center for the Book
Appeared on KARK, Channel 7 News for a segment in connection with the UAMS NICU/Ronald McDonald Family Area opening. January 30, 2020.
Panelist for “Women Supporting Women in the Creative Economy” featuring Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives, with moderator Holly Truitt, Lori Yazwinski Santa-Rita, Erin Lorenzen, and Meredith Lowry at the inaugural 2020 Arkansas Maker Summit by the Scott Family Amazeum. Springdale, AR, January 20, 2020.
UA Little Rock College of Social Sciences and Communication Alumni Spotlight. November 12, 2019.
Panelist and panel moderator for “Women in Publishing” with Eliza Borne (Oxford American), Jo McDougall (Poet Laureate of Arkansas), Molly Bess Rector (Open Mouth Reading Series), and Crystal C. Mercer (Mercer Textile Mercantile) at the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference. November 9, 2019.
Guest on Uppity Women Podcast with Stephanie Harris, Episode 28.
Readings and pop up shops at Bookish Ft. Smith, Sweet Freedom Cheese, and Two Friends Books. Northwest Arkansas. September 27-29, 2019.
Presenter for “Arkansas Women Past and Present” at the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. Co-panelist with Arkansas Women author Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch. Invited reader at “Pub or Perish.” April 27, 2019.
Presenter at Little Rock Rotary for 200 Rotarians and 2019 Miss Arkansas Pageant Contestants. Clinton Presidential Center. June 11, 2019.
Organizer of Women Make Arkansas Market, featuring the makers and performers of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives, at The Bernice Garden. May 30, 2019.
Presenter at Hendrix College for the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Literature & Language Over Lunch and ShopTalk. February 22, 2019.
Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Recipient of the 2018 Miracle Monocle Editors' Award for Emerging Writers.
Recipient of $500 Grant from The Arkansas Arts Council's Sally A. Williams Artist Fund to attend the 2017 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Washington, DC. January 2017.
Interviewed on Mike Grosser's Upload Podcast, Episode #18. Upload Podcast is "a conversation about leadership, creative entrepreneurship, freelancing, and side hustles."
Contributor to "Page-Turners" 2016 reading recommendations. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. December 2016.
Panelist at the 2016 Louisiana Festival of Books for Scars: An Anthology. Spring 2016.
Panelist at the 2016 Arkansas Literary Festival for Scars: An Anthology. Spring 2016.
Review of Scars: An Anthology in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. January 2016.
Featured in "Personal Space." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. January 2016.
Panelist at Columbia University's Seminar in Narrative, Health, and Social Justice for Scars: An Anthology. Fall 2015.
Recipient of weekend Writers' Residence at The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA. Fall 2015.
UALR Alumni Interview. 2015.
Scars: An Anthology book launch announcement. Arkansas Times. Fall 2015.
"A Father's Heart." The Healing Muse: Vol. 10.1. Fall 2010.
"Caustic Hairdresser." Fog City Writers Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention. Summer 2007.
"The Shell Collector." Glimmer Train New Writers Contest, Honorable Mention. 2012.
Robert Olen Butler's From Where We Dream. "Achieving Thrum: An Analysis of Robert Olen Butler's Method-Writing Approach." 2010.
Craig Thompson's Blankets. The Emprise Review, Volume 15 (defunct).
George Jensen's Some of the Words are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family. The Emprise Review, Volume 14 (defunct).