Literary Honors 

• Reader, Sunday Salon Chicago, September 2015
• "Safe," The Briar Cliff Review, nominated for the Pushcart Prize XL, fall 2014
• "Olllie's Back," American Fiction Volume 13, third place, American Fiction Short Story Prize, New Rivers Press, 2013
• The Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition, Short List Finalist, Novel Category, WHAT REMAINS, 2010
• Dana Award in Short Fiction, Finalist for "Sunshine Every Day," 2008
• The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction for "Call Back," 2007
• Ragdale, Writer's Residency, 1996, 2002, 2008
• StoryQuarterly, assistant fiction editor, 1999-2006
• President, The Writers, a writers' collective, 2006—2007
• Panelist, Conversation: Image and Text, Story Week, Columbia College Chicago, 2004
• Reader, Printer's Row Book Fair, Chicago, 2001

Photography
​Solo Exhibitions

• 92nd Street Y, The Photography Center, New York
• The Photographer’s Gallery, London
• The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
• The State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
• Art Gallery, University of Colorado
• Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Selected Group Exhibitions

• "A Lasting Vision: Photographs from the Institute of Design 1970-2001" - Institute of Design
• “The Collectible Moment” - The Norton Simon Museum
• “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design” - Art Institute of Chicago
• “Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS” - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• “Day Without Art” - Chicago Cultural Center
• “Day Without History” - Chicago Historical Society
• “Farbwerke” (Color Works) - Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
• “American Colour Photography” - Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, Germany
• “Fotografie im Alltag Amerikas” - Kunstgewerbe-museum, Zurich, Switzerland
• “The Second Generation of Colour Photographers,” - Arles, France
  “6eme Recontres Internationales de la Photographie” - Arles, France
• “Breadth of Vision,” - Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, New York

Publications

• A Lasting Vision: Photographs from the Institute of Design 1970-2001, IIT Institute of Design, 2015
• The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2006
• Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Umbrage Editions, 2003
• Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, ArtInstitute of Chicago, 2002
• Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in The Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, 1994
• Figure, Portrait, Persona: Photographic Works by Female Artists, Sandford Gallery, 1993
• Labor & The Post-industrial Age, Pig Iron Press, 1990
• The Chicago Photographers' Project, poster, 1985