Honors & Awards

•       Winner, The Georgia Review Prose Prize 2026, selected by final judge Kiese Laymon
— “Go Anywhere. Do Anything”

•       Wigleaf Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions, 2026
— “The Map That Leads Nowhere” (SmokeLong Quarterly)

•       Best Microfiction 2026, selected by final judge Diane Seuss

— “The Distance We Name” (100 Word Story)

— “The Map That Leads Nowhere” (SmokeLong Quarterly)

— “Craft Essay”

•       Recipient, Rumpus/Harnisch Microgrant and Technology Package, The Rumpus, 2026
— Awarded $1,000 and technology package in support of The Country and the Border in You, a collection of interlinked short stories in progress

•       Finalist, The Iowa Review Award in Fiction, 2026, selected by final judge Tom Lin
— “Guidelines from the Last Editor”

•       Pushcart Prize Nominee
— “I Think I’m Special.” (Another Chicago Magazine, 2025)
— “Instructions for Carrying the Name of Your Dead Brother.” (Vestal Review, 2025)

•       Semifinalist, American Short(er) Fiction Prize, 2026.

— “Guidelines from the Last Editor”

•       Shortlisted, DISQUIET Prize (Fiction), 2026

— “Go Anywhere, Do Anything”

•       Best Small Fictions Nominee

— “The Distance We Name” (100 Word Story)

•       McCormack Writing Center Oregon Summer Workshop Scholar (formerly Tin House), short fiction (with Jamel Brinkley). Scholarship Recipient. (Reed College, Portland, OR) (July 2026)

•       Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (Online), fiction (with Rebecca Makkai, Shastri Akella, and Libby Flores,). Scholarship Recipient. (June 2026)