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

2019 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