Grants & Awards

2024 Finalist, Tennessee Williams Festival Fiction Contest

2023 NEH Rust Belt Lab, Summer Institute. Participant

2022 Finalist, Slippery Elm Poetry Contest

2021 Longlist, Terry J. Cox Award for Poetry

2020 Semifinalist, Trio House Book Award

2018 -19 The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship

2018 Dissent Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2015 English Department Entrance Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2015 Semifinalist, Center for Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Poetry Competition

2014 Second Prize, The Ledge Fiction Prize, The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine

2013 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry

2013 Semifinalist, Recursive City, 42 Miles Press Poetry Book Contest

2012 Pushcart Nomination, "Elegy for the Hills"

2012 Finalist, Rita Dove Award, International Literary Awards

2012 Finalist, Enizagam Poetry Contest 

2012 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Open Fiction Contest 

2012 Finalist, William Richey Short Fiction Contest