Awards and Nominations

FOR WRITING

• 2025: Best Short Story Derringer for "The Wind Phone" (EQMM, September/October 2024)

• 2025: fifth place in EQMM Readers Award for "The Wind Phone" (EQMM, September/October 2024)

• 2025: Anthony Award finalist for Best Children's/YA Novel for First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet (Level Best Books, 2024)

• 2025: Agatha Award finalist for Best Children's/YA Novel for First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet (Level Best Books, 2024)

• 2025: Black Orchid Novella Contest, Honorable Mention for "Melancholia" (forthcoming in EQMM)

• 2025: Honor Roll listing for "Texas Kinda Attitude" in Best Private Eye Stories of the Year

• 2024: Agatha Award finalist for for Best First Mystery Novel for Dutch Threat (Genius Book Publishing, 2023)

• 2024: Lefty Award finalist for for Best First Mystery Novel for Dutch Threat (Genius Book Publishing, 2023)

• 2024: Macavity Award finalist for for Best First Mystery Novel for Dutch Threat (Genius Book Publishing, 2023)

• 2024: Derringer Award finalist for Best Short Story for "I Don't Like Mondays" (Mystery Magazine, July 2023)

• 2020: Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society

• 2020: Best Flash Story Derringer for "The Two-Body Problem" (Mystery Weekly Magazine, October 2019)

• 2019: Derringer Award finalist for Best Short Story for "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Murder" (Mystery Most Geographical, Wildside Press, 2023)

• 2019: second place in EQMM Readers Award for "50" (EQMM, November/December 2018)

FOR EDITING

• 2026: David Avallone's "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" from Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead (Down and Out Books, 2024) was selected for inclusion in Best Mystery Stories of the Year

• 2025: Anthony Award finalist for Best Anthology or Collection for Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead (Down and Out Books, 2024)

• 2025: Derringer Award finalist for Best Anthology for Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead (Down and Out Books, 2024)

• 2024: Anthony Award finalist for Best Anthology or Collection for Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles (Down and Out Books, 2023)

• 2024: Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski's "Ticket to Ride" from Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles (Down and Out Books, 2023) won the Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards for Best Short Story

• 2023: Anthony Award finalist for Best Anthology or Collection for Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (Down and Out Books, 2022)

• 2023: Ed Aymar's "Still Crazy After All These Years" from Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (Down and Out Books, 2022) was a finalist for the Anthony Award for Best Short Story

• 2022: Michael Bracken's "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" from Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel (Untreed Reads, 2021) won the Derringer Award for Best Long Story

• 2022: James D.F. Hannah's "No Man's Land" from Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel (Untreed Reads, 2021) was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery and Suspense

• 2021: Anthony Award finalist for Best Anthology or Collection for The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020)

• 2021: Stacy Woodson's "River" from The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020) won the Derringer Award for Best Short Story

• 2021: Elaine Viet's "Dog Eat Dog" from The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020) was a finalist for the Thriller Award for Best Short Story

FOR TRANSLATING

• 2023: Thriller Award finalist for Best Short Story for Dominique Biebau's "Russian For Beginners" (EQMM, March/April 2022)

• 2017: Derringer Award finalist for Best Short Story for Hilde Vandermeeren's "The Lighthouse" (EQMM, March/April 2016)

• 1986: Edgar Award finalist for Best Short Story for Janwillem van de Wetering's "There Goes Ravelaar!" (EQMM, January 1985)

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