"The Alice Stories" won the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. He received awards from Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and other publications. It won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. It is run by the literary magazine "Prairie Schooner" and University of Nebraska Press. In 1873, the first newspaper was published by Samuel Biglari, the "Prairie Schooner". Her fiction has received a Pushcart special mention and "Prairie Schooner"'s Jane Geske award. In 2014, he won Glenna Luschei Award from "Prairie Schooner". Her collection of poetry titled "Famous", received the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. A basic wagon, a prairie schooner or a Conestoga wagon. As Yi-Fen the poem was rejected nine (9) times before Prairie Schooner took it. Her work appeared in "Oregon Review", "Prairie Schooner", "South Carolina Review". His stories "Midsummer" and "Heat" were published in Tondo, Manila by the "Prairie Schooner". Her work has appeared in "Painted Bride Quarterly", "The Kenyon Review", "Prairie Schooner". "Prairie Schooner", and went on archaeology digs for the school's natural history museum, Morrill Hall.