RECENT NEWS

2020

Honorable Mention, Miami Book Fair Emerging Writing Fellowship
Awarded Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship, Houston, TX
Honorable Mention, Ninth Letter, 2020 Literary Prize in Nonfiction, for “A Really Good Place”
Finalist, Sonora Review, Poetry Prize, for “Contrails” (appearing in an upcoming issue)
Finalist, Bayou Magazine, James Knudsen Fiction Prize, for “Catching Larks”
Second Place, Mississippi Review, Nonfiction Prize, for “On Being Wrong”
Finalist, Boulevard, Emerging Writers Prize, for “A Really Good Place”

2019
Finalist, Narrative Thirty Below Contest, for “The Night Before” (Story of the Week March 2020)
“Suddenly the Top Blew Off,” essay, longlisted for Berlin Writer’s Prize

2018
"The Score" selected as Joyland's Story of the Month for May

2016

Finalist, Narrative Fall Story Contest, for "Stormwrangler III
Bertha Morton Scholarship, University of Montana.  Highest-level graduate research funding available.
Research and Creative Scholarship Fund, University of Montana. Summer funding to attend Tin House workshop.

2015
Truman Capote Fellowship, University of Montana.
Pushcart Prize nomination for "Crickets: a love song in six parts" (DIAGRAM) 

2014
Winner, DIAGRAM Essay Contest, for "Crickets: a love song in six parts." Judge: Ander Monson.
Winner, Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, for "Second Person."

2013
Winner, The Gene and Etta Silverman Family Award for Poetry, University of Southern California.

Earlier
University of Southern California Trustee Tuition Scholarship.