2023

• New Letters Robert Day Award for Fiction.

• “Narrative Medicine, Compassionate Arts and Healing,” Taft Faculty Research Group Grant, University of Cincinnati.

• Finalist, The Masters Review Chapbook Open.

• Taft Graduate Summer Fellowship Award, UC.

• William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching for Graduate Student Faculty, Department of English, UC.

• Longlisted, Quarter After Eight Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest.

2022

• Finalist, The Florida Review Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award.

• Second Prize, Hatfield/Westheimer Short Story Contest, UC.

• University Research Council Graduate Student Stipend and Research Cost Program for Faculty-Student Collaboration Grant, UC.

2021

• Longlisted, Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize.

• Full Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop.

• The Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies Fellowship, UC.

2020

• Semifinalist, Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, American Short Fiction.

• Semifinalist, Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, Boston Review.

• Outstanding Educator Award, The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

• Semifinalist, American Short(er) Fiction Contest, American Short Fiction.

≤2019

• Winner, Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival.

• Semifinalist, Fulbright Award for the Arts in Morocco.

• Semifinalist, American Short Fiction Prize.

• MFA Alumni Writer’s Grant, Bennington Writing Seminars.