DateAward
September 13, 2025An excerpt from my memoir, Crying in a Foreign Language, wins Third Place, Pacific Northwest Writers Association Unpublished Book Contest, Genre: Memoir
May 26, 2025My essay, Unexpected Ending, is shortlisted for publication, Lunch Ticket
November 20, 2024My essay, Closets, is named a Finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review Long Story Competition
September 23, 2024My essay, Unexpected Ending, earns an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 93rd Annual Writing Competition
February 16, 2024My memoir, Crying in a Foreign Language, is named a finalist for The Kenyon Review’s Developmental Editing Fellowship.
January 9, 2025My essay, Abroad, is longlisted in the Queer Adventurers travel essay contest.
May 18, 2023My essay, Unfolding, is named a finalist for the Columbia Journal Online Prize for Nonfiction.
February 15, 2023My essay, Unfolding, is named a finalist for thee CutBank Montana Prize for Nonfiction.
November 15, 2022My essay, Bending Time, wins the White Enso Award for Non-Fiction.
September 10, 2022I am paired with Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, for Season 17 of the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.