Honors
- 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)
- Pushcart and Best of the Net nomination for "Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived By My Mother," published by Hippocampus.
- Pushcart nomination for "Pro-Choice Stories: New World Economics," published in Jellyfish Review.
Press
- 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.
- Interview for the SAHA podcast on the role of stories in humanitarian work.
- Interview for Carve Magazine on my essay "Patience and Me" (in print only)
Fellowships, Grants & Residencies
- Resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2024)
- Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center (2024)
- Resident at Mountain Field Farm in Alaska, chosen by Pam Houston (2024)
- Resident at the Writer's Room at the Betsy Hotel (2023)
- Resident at the Virginia Center for the Arts (2023)
- Resident at Ragdale (2023)
- The Word's Editor-Writer Mentorship Mentee in Memoir (2022)
- Writers’ Trust of Canada Mentee in Nonfiction (2022)
- Digital Original Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to create a new work for digital dissemination (2020)
- Voices of Color Fellow at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (2019)
- James Houston Memorial Scholar at The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2019)
