Honors
- Whiting Grant for Creative Nonfiction, 2025
- Canadian National Magazine award finalist for "Signs of Life" published in Hazlitt.
- Notable mention in Best American Essays 2021 for "Room Service Economics: Seven Principles," published in Bat City Review.
- Notable mention in Best American Essays 2020 for "Bone Memories," published in The Threepenny Review (print only)
Press
- Featured in Colorado Public Radio's coverage of Whiting grant winners
- Interview for Sea Change radio, a nationally syndicated radio program and podcast with over 80 broadcast affiliates, about my High Country News feature on green space, infrastructure and gentrification in Denver.
- Featured in CBC's coverage of the 3 mentees selected by the Writers' Trust of Canada for its 2022 mentorship program.
- Interview for NPR/North Carolina Public Radio's "Embodied" podcast on estrangement and the immigrant experience in America. Rebroadcast by 36+ NPR affiliates around the country.
