Awards and Honors
2024 IPBA Benjamin Franklin Awards: Gold Medal
Eric Hoffer Awards: Montaigne Medal Finalist
Next Gen Indy Awards: Medaling finalist, two categories
Grand Prize in the Next Gen Short Story Awards
For Short Fiction (all currently unpublished):
- 1987 Hall Prize For Fiction, University of Washington Graduate School of Creative Writing
- 2023 Alaska Writers Guild Quarterly Writing Contest, First Place
- 2024 Next Generation Indie Short Story Awards, First Place and overall Grand Prize
For Short Promotional Video:
- 2017 Telly Awards, Bronze Medal, with Princess Cruises
For Books:
- 1997 Western States Book Awards, A Place Beyond
- 2010 IPBA Awards, Silver Medal—The Glacier Wolf
- 2013 Mom’s Choice Awards, Gold Medal, Once Upon Alaska (co-winner, with photographer Mark Kelley)
- 2016 Living Now Awards, Bronze Medal, The Giant’s Hand
- 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold Medal, Alaska (co-winner, with photographer Mark Kelley)
- 2018 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold Medal, Alaska’s Magnificent Mendenhall Glacier (co-winner, with photographer Mark Kelley)
- 2020 Montaigne Medal Finalist, The Last Light Breaking
- 2022 Living Now Awards, Gold Medal, A Wolf Called Romeo
- 2024 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold Medal, Romeo The Friendly Wolf
- 2024 Montaigne Medal Finalist, Romeo The Friendly Wolf
- 2024 Next Generation Indie Awards, Medal Finalist in two categories, Romeo The Friendly Wolf