Recent Honors

The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

Selected to attend the prestigious week-long summer writers workshop in fiction by The Kenyon Review in 2023.

My story, That Thing We Don't Talk About, was a semifinalist at the Long Story Contest, 2022 by Iron Horse Literary Magazine.

My poem, The Color Brown, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023 by the editors of Janus Literary magazine.

Nominated for the coveted PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers by the editors of Witness Magazine for my debut story Bazaar.

Shortlisted for the prestigious First Pages Prize for in-progress novel-in-stories, That Thing We Don't Talk About.

Two-week writing residency at the Firefly Farms in Knoxville, TN, awarded by SAFTA.

Selected to be one of seven fellows to receive mentorship, craft lectures, a stipend, and story publication in an anthology.