Contests
First Prize — 2021 Bellevue Literary Review Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist — 2020 Iowa Review Awards (Nonfiction)
Longlisted — 2020 Disquiet International Literary Prize
Semi-Finalist — 2017 American Short Fiction American Shorter Fiction Prize
Honorable Mention — 2017 River Styx Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest
Winner — 2017 WritingxWriters Short Short Story Contest
Finalist — 2017 Redivider Blurred Genre Contest
Semi-Finalist — 2016 River Styx Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest
First Prize — 2014 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Finalist — 2014 Conium Review Innovative Fiction Contest
First Prize — 2013 Academy of American Poetry Prize, Franklin & Marshall College
Support & Education
Fall 2023 Workshop Student — Zapata Ranchlands Writing Workshop (w/ Pam Houston)
Fall 2020 Workshop Student — Catapult Advanced Fiction Workshop (w/ Mandy Berman)
Fall 2019 Workshop Student — Sackett Street Writers’ Manuscript Generator (w/ Heather Aimee O’Neill)
Fall 2018 Writer-to-Writer Mentee (Mentor: Keena Roberts) — Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Writer-to-Writer Program
2018 Scholarship Recipient — Hatty-Fitts Walker Scholarship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (Multi-genre w/ Wendy C. Ortiz)
2017 Contest Winner/Workshop Attendee — WritingxWriters Boulder, CO (Multi-Genre w/ Pam Houston, Camille Dungy, and Andre Dubus III)
2016 Workshop Attendee — Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop (Short Fiction w/ Rebecca Makkai)
2015 Workshop Attendee — The Company of Writers, New Haven, CT (Short Fiction w/ Amy Bloom)
2015 Workshop Attendee — The Riverwood Poetry Series, Hartford, CT (Poetry w/ Rickey Laurentiis)
2014 Contest Winner/Workshop Attendee — Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, Gambier, OH (Short Fiction w/ Caitlin Horrocks and Elliot Holt)
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MA, American Studies (Cultural Focus): Trinity College, 2019
BA, Creative Writing (Poetry) and Philosophy: Franklin & Marshall College, 2013