Second year in a row!

I came home from an extended road trip to amazing news -- one of the handful of stories I'm able to nominate annually for the Pushcart Prize has, for the second year in a row, won it and will be reprinted in the annual anthology. Out of the thousands of nominations, the odds of this happening once are ridiculous, but two years in a row is just crazy. More than anything I just feel lucky to have somehow managed to find such great writing and to have had any part in helping point readers to it.