His ongoing column Fool's Gold has appeared in numerous alternative newspapers, including the Durango Telegraph,[8] the New Mexico Mercury,[9] Four Corners Free Press,[10] and the KC Post.
The column has received several nods from the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies awards, a regional, multi-platform contest for reporters and news organizations.
It is a collaboration between Hively and photographer Magdalena Lily McCarson, pairing the former's poetry with the latter's black and white photography in conversation.
[21] His follow-up collection, Desert Apocrypha, received the 32nd annual Reading the West Book Award for poetry,[1] after being shortlisted by member bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
[25] He also earned a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers Association of America in 2018 for his episode on The Raven Narratives podcast, "The Doggie Bucket List.