DateAward
April 2026I am chosen to participate in the highly competitive Lambda Literary 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
September 2025An excerpt from my memoir, Crying in a Foreign Language, wins Third Place, Pacific Northwest Writers Association Unpublished Book Contest, Genre: Memoir
May 2025My essay, Unexpected Ending, is shortlisted for publication, Lunch Ticket
April 2025I am waitlisted for the Lambda Literary 2025 Virtual Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
February 2025Awarded a scholarship to attend AWP Los Angeles
January 2025Awarded a partial scholarship to attend Garth Greenwell’s workshop series, How to Write Sex (And Why)
December 2024I am selected to participate in the highly competitive Kenyon Review Winter Online Writers Workshop 2025
November 2024My essay, Closets, is named a Finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review Long Story Competition
September 2024My essay, Unexpected Ending, earns an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 93rd Annual Writing Competition
February 2024My memoir, Crying in a Foreign Language, is named a finalist for The Kenyon Review’s Developmental Editing Fellowship.
January 2024My essay, Abroad, is longlisted in the Queer Adventurers travel essay contest.
December 2023Awarded a partial scholarship to attend Greg Mania’s workshop series, Book Proposal Generator
May 2023My essay, Unfolding, is named a finalist for the Columbia Journal Online Prize for Nonfiction.
February 2023My essay, Unfolding, is named a finalist for thee CutBank Montana Prize for Nonfiction.
November 2022My essay, Bending Time, wins the White Enso Award for Non-Fiction.
September 2022I am paired with Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, for Season 17 of the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.
April 2021Awarded a partial scholarship to attend Allison K. Williams and Dinty W. Moore’s intensive workshop, Rebirth Your Writing
June 2011My translation of Tei’ichi Hirai’s X is named a finalist for the 2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards