2025
Oregon book Awards
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” was a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Award.
foreword indies award for LGBTQ+ Adult Lit
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” was awarded the Bronze for the 2025 Foreword Indies Award.
awarded Publishing triangle’s leslie feinberg award for transgender and gender-variant literature
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” was awarded this prize in April 2025.
2024
center for fiction first novel prize longlist
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” was longlisted for the 2024 First Novel Prize.
chicago review of books
76 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2024
Smoke & mold: Ground lines
Interview with Luke Sutherland
The Center for Fiction Longlist
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” longlisted for the First Novel Prize
Beyond binaries in ecological writing
Interview with Lauren C. Johnson
SF State University News
Interview with Matt Itelson of SF State University
Dragonfly.eco
Interview with Mary Woodbury of Dragonfly.Eco
The pen and the sword
Interview with Taya Jae of KVNF Public Radio
On Ambiguity in a Small Town
Personal Essay, The Gay and Lesbian Review
For the Birds
Fiction, Saints and Sinners Fiction Anthology/Contest Winner
2023
A Day at the Beach
Fiction, Querencia Press
Returning Indigenous Land
With a Perspective, KQED Radio
2022
Interview with Peculiar Journal
Queen
Short-short contest, WritingxWriters
When They Took All the Trees
Flash Creative Non-Fiction, Hinterland Magazine (U.K.)
Willamette
Fiction, Peculiar Journal
2021
Metal Heart
Flash fiction, WritingxWriters
Black Arion
Fiction re-print, Fresh.Ink
Annihilation for Beginners
Flash fiction, Beyond Words Literary Magazine
The Sheet
Flash fiction, Io Literary Journal
Black Arion
Flash fiction, Electric Literature
School of Velocity
Flash fiction, The Racket
The Owl People
Fiction re-print, Fresh.Ink
2020
Each Motion a Promise
Short Fiction, Obelus
I Am a Conservationist
Short Fiction, Best Small Fictions Anthology 2020
The Parent
Short Fiction, Gold Man Review
The Owl People
Short Fiction, New World Writing
Kaleb Blackgoat
Flash Creative Non-Fiction, Hinterland Magazine (U.K.)
I Am a Conservationist
Fiction, Re-published by Fresh.Ink
What the Ex Broke
Short Fiction, Prometheus Dreaming Press
2019
Me and My Teen Queen
Personal Narrative, Original Plumbing Ten Year print edition w/Feminist Press
Cal
Flash Creative Non-Fiction, Gravel Literary Magazine
Tyranny of the Quantifiable
Fiction, 2nd place winner of the Short-Shorts Editor’s Prize in The Flexible Persona
2018
Interview with Rappahannock Review
I Am a Conservationist
Fiction, Winner of the 2018 Forge Literary Magazine Flash Fiction Competition
Zeus’s Fear
Flash Fiction, Rappahannock Review
Stars and Songs
Poetry, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk
Bywater, New Orleans
Poetry, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk
Gay Shame
Poetry, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk
Listening
Flash Fiction, Nothing Short of 100 Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
2017
The Liver
Flash Fiction, 100 Word Story
Listening
Flash Fiction, 100 Word Story
2012
Sonny and Princess
Fiction, Instant City
2011
Kodachrome
Creative Non-Fiction, Blurb
Charlie J. Stephens 