RECOGNITION
Story Collection / Novel-in-Progress:
LONGLISTED | First Pages Prize | Novel-in-Progress A SUITABLE OCCUPATION
SEMI-FINALIST | Black Lawrence Press | Story collection EVERYTHING IS GOING TO COME
FINALIST | University of Pittsburgh Press Drue Heinz prize | Story collection EVERYTHING IS GOING TO COME
Stories / Flash Fiction:
SPECIAL MENTION | Pushcart Prize 2023 | “The Belfort,” published in Colorado Review
SPECIAL MENTION | Pushcart Prize 2021 | “The Red Bump,” published in Prism Review
SEVEN additional stories NOMINATED for the Pushcart Prize | “The Guptas,” “Letters to My Coach,” “Elphinstone,” “Humbug”, “Later”, “A Bed for Kavita”, “Underneath It All”
HONORABLE MENTION | Schiff Fiction Award (The Cincinnati Review) 2022 | “A Bed for Kavita”
FINALIST | Pleiades Magazine Fiction Contest 2021 | “Gardening,” published in Southern Indiana Review
LONGLISTED | wigleaf Top 50 2022 | “TLC” published in MoonPark Review
LONGLISTED | wigleaf Top 50 2021 | “Housewives,” published in The Cincinnati Review
NOMINATED | Best Microfiction 2020 | “Housewives” published in The Cincinnati Review
NOMINATED | Best of the Net 2019 | “Makeup Forever,” published in The McNeese Review
FINALIST | Phoebe Journal Short Fiction contest | “Conflict,” published in The Normal School
Grants / Residencies / Conferences / Fellowships
Grant for Creative Individuals, Mass Cultural Council 2024
Partial Scholarship, Grub Street Novel Incubator program 2024
The Ragdale Foundation, May 2024
50th Anniversary Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, March 2023
Tin House Novel Writing Workshop, Summer 2022
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Summer 2022
Gish Jen Emerging Writers’ Fellowship 2016, Writers’ Room of Boston
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2010
Interviews
Interview with Milk Candy Review about my flash piece “Underneath It All” here
Interview with Southern Indiana Review about my story “Gardening” here
Interview with Colorado Review about my story “The Belfort” here