News

& Recognition

  • Honorable Mention – First Chapters Contest (platform TBA in November!)

2025

  • Chosen Scholar – LiTFUSE Poets Unite [EVENT CANCELLED] 

  • Longlisted – 2023 Adroit Journal Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction

2023

2022

  • Shortlisted – 2022 fractured lit Fast Flash Challenge

2021

  • Semi-finalist – American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize

  • Finalist – CutBank Montana Prize in Fiction

  • Preliminary Judge in Fiction – Summer Fishtrap Fellowship

  • Nominee – Best American Short Stories

2020

2018 and earlier

  • Finalist – Glimmer Train 2018 Short Story Award for New Writers Top 25

  • Scholarship Grantee - 2016 Community of Writers Summer Writers Workshop

  • Scholarship Grantee - 2015 Florence and Earl Stewart Scholarship for literary merit

  • Nominee - Best of the Net 2011

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