AWARDS
& FELLOWSHIPS
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"Glass Eel" Ninth Letter Literary Awards Honorable Mention
Selected by Sara Borjas, Forthcoming 2024
"Chicken Husbandry" The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, 2024: Writers of Color
Selected by Erika T. Wurth, Forthcoming 2024
"Second Tongue" Nominee for Best New Poets 2024
Nominated by Ninth Letter, April 2024
"Carnivore" Nominee for Best New Poets 2024
Nominated by Quarterly West, April 2024
Albert C. Yates Fellowship Recipient, 2024-28
Yates Fellowship Program through the University of Cincinnati
"The Father" Northwest Review Poetry Contest, Runner-Up
Judged by Major Jackson, January 2024
BRINE ORCHID Open Reading Period in Poetry Publication Offer Recipient
Selected by YesYes Books, September 2023
ANIMAL LOGIC Open Reading Period in Poetry Publication Offer Recipient
Selected by Bull City Press, September 2023
"Lazarus" Nominee for Best of Net 2023
Nominated by New Ohio Review, September 2023
"Cullet" Nominee for Best New Poets 2023
Nominated by Sugar House Review, April 2023
"Phantom Pain as Natal Philopatry" Nominee for Best New Poets 2023
Nominated by Salt Hill Journal, April 2023
"Haole Girl" Arthur Rense Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Selected by Shelley Wong, April 2023
Vandewater Poetry Prize Honorable Mention
Judged by Mag Gabbert, April 2023
"Glass Eel" Fugue Poetry Prize Finalist
Judged by Kaveh Akbar, Spring 2023
"Out of the Eater: Poems" Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry
Selected by Tory Adkisson, April 2022
"Creation Myth" Indiana Review Poetry Contest Finalist
"Fish Eye" Ruminate Janet B. McCabe Prize Winner
Selected by Matthew Olzmann, 2021
Lilly Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2020-23
Lilly Fellows Program through Valparaiso University
"God's Love is Very Loud" Fugue Poetry Contest, Runner-Up
Selected by sam sax, November 2020
Graduate Teaching Fellowship Recipient, 2020
The Ohio State University English Department
"Camaro" Lowell-Grabill Fiction Contest Winner
Selected by Rachel Arndt, 2018
"Metamorphoses" Lowell-Grabill Poetry Contest Winner
Selected by Rachel Arndt, 2018
"Harvests" Lowell-Grabill Poetry Contest Winner
Selected by Marie Howe, 2017
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