The Year They Gave Women The Priesthood
And Other Stories

2022 Association of Mormon Letters Best Short Fiction Collection

(2022).  Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.

In a Better Country

2009 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly home . . . (Hebrews 11:16)

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 42:1 (Spring 2009):153-206

The Last Code Talker

1999  Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

DZEH-NESH-CHEE-AH-NAH-TSIN-TLITI-TSAH-AS-ZIH. Elk-Nut-Eye-Match-Yucca.
His grandfather used to say the bilagaanas always come in twos.

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 32:1 (Spring 1999): 161-187.

Homecoming

1995 Moonstone Award Winner
1995 Brookie & J D. K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest Winner

''Just one thing, Elder. You make a decision, you and the Lord, and you move on. No regrets. Regrets’ll kill you. "

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 32:1 (Spring 1999): 161-187.

Ghosts

Once Upon a Christmastime (1997) Salt Lake City: Deseret Books.

How We Do Death

1992 Sunstone Award in Fiction

"If I had to go through the pain of dying a thousand times all over again,
I would rather do that than live forty more years the way I was, gnashing my teeth in lukewarm nothing."

Sunstone 20:1 (April 1997):  32-40.

Missionary Farewell

1993 Sunstone Award in Fiction

"A week later, he removed the ring from her engagement finger.
"Just friends, okay? I'm doing this for the Lord, not for you. Not even for us."

Sunstone 20:2 (July 1997):  27-28.

Pioneers

1997 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 30 (Winter 1997):  137-150.

The Seduction of H. Lyman Winger

1996 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 29:2 (Summer 1996):155-175.

Gifts of the Spirit

1993 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:3 (Fall 1993):  199-213.

Things of This World

1989 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest

Sunstone 16:7 (December 1993): 45-53.

Apple Indian

1992 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 25:4 (Winter 1992): 161-187.

Prodigy

1992 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest

Lost and Found

1991 Association for Mormon Letters:  Award for Short Fiction

Originally published in Christmas for the World (1991) Salt Lake City:  Aspen Books.
Also anthologized in Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories (1992) Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.

Family Plantation Day

1987 D.K. Brown Contest First Place Winner

Sunstone 14:2 (April 1990): 26-35.

Ultimatum

Visions and Other Stories (1990).  Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.

Daddy-Daughter Date

1988 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest Winner

Visions and Other Stories (1990).  Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.

The Bowhunter

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 21:4 (Winter 1988): 151-168.

A Game of Inches

1987 D. K. Brown Fiction Contest Second Place Winner

Sunstone 12:5 (September 1988): 23-28.

Visions

1985 D.K. Brown Fiction Contest

Sunstone 11:3 (May 1987): 12-19.

The Orchard

1986 New Times Fiction Contest (Honorable Mention)

New Times 17:2 (January 8-14, 1986): 40-48.

Hozhoogoo Nanina Doo (Go in Beauty)

1986 Association for Mormon Letters:  Award for Short Fiction
1984 Dialogue Fiction Contest Winner

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 18:4 (Winter 1985): 153-182.

The Renovation of Marsha Fletcher

Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 16:2 (Summer 1983): 79-99.

Visions and Other Stories

(1990).  Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.