Awards
2025 Julie Suk Award Winner Brine Orchid
2026
Ohio Book Award for Poetry Brine Orchid
2026
First Place for the 2025 Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest
2026
Big Other Book Award Finalist Brine Orchid
2026
Alice James Book Award Finalist
2026
Granum Foundation Shortlist
2025
Honorable Mention for an Academy of American Poets University Prize
2026
Jake Adam York Prize Finalist
2025
Semifinalist for The Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize
2026
2024
“Magpie 까치” Nominee for the Pushcart Prize
2024
"Chicken Husbandry" Nominee for the Best of Net
2024
"Glass Eel" Ninth Letter Literary Awards Honorable Mention
2025
"Chicken Husbandry" & "Camaro" The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, 2024: Writers of Color
2024
"Second Tongue" Nominee for Best New Poets
2024
"Carnivore" Nominee for Best New Poets
2024
Albert C. Yates Fellowship Recipient, 2024-28, Yates Fellowship Program through the University of Cincinnati
2024
"The Father" Northwest Review Poetry Contest, Runner-Up
2024
"Lazarus" Nominee for Best of Net
2023
"Cullet" Nominee for Best New Poets
2023
"Phantom Pain as Natal Philopatry" Nominee for Best New Poets
"Haole Girl" Arthur Rense Prize from the Academy of American Poets
2023
2023
"Glass Eel" Fugue Poetry Prize Finalist
2023
Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry
2022
"Fish Eye" Ruminate Janet B. McCabe Prize Winner
2021
Lilly Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2020-23
2020
Graduate Teaching Fellowship Recipient, The Ohio State University
2020
"Camaro" Lowell-Grabill Fiction Contest Winner
"Metamorphoses" Lowell-Grabill Poetry Contest Winner
2018
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key
2018
2014
“Turtle Ship” Best of Net Nominee
2026
“The Riven” Pushcart Prize Nominee
2026
