Awards & Recognition
Winner of the Pushcart Prize for "Mantis"
Published in The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition
Originally published in Wigleaf, February 2021
"The Love Song of the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat"
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
​Finalist in the Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest, judged by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Published in F(r)iction, Legacy Issue, April 2021
"Magnificat," "Carried," and "Bird Time"
Semi-Finalist in the American Short(er) Fiction Contest, judged by Susan Steinberg
"Commute"
First Runner-Up in Short Fiction for the Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, judged by Kristen Millares Young
"Names for Fireflies" and "Waters"
Finalists in the Black Warrior Review Flash Contest, judged by C Pam Zhang
"Waters" published in Fugue, March 2021
"Human Hearts"
Longlisted in the CRAFT Elements Contest: Conflict
Published in The Kenyon Review, May/June 2021 (excerpt and audio)
"Green Frog"
Named a Longform Fiction Pick of the Week
Published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2020