Awards & Residencies

  • BookEnds Fellowship, Stonybrook University, 2023

  • Residency, Mass MOCA, Summer 2021

  • “Mark”, Winner of the Danahy Fiction Prize, Tampa Review, Spring/Summer 2020

  • “Knots”, Calyx journal 2016 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, Honorable Mention

  • “White Out”, second place, The Masters Review's Winter Short Story Award, 2017

  • Winner, Ninth Letter Prize in Fiction, 2013

  • Finalist, Indiana Review Prize in Fiction, 2013

  • Finalist, New Millennium Writings Fiction Contest, 2013

  • Honorable mention, Texas Observer Short Story Contest, 2013

  • Recipient, Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant, 2012

  • Winner, Women Who Write International Short Prose Contest, 2012

  • Quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, 2011

  • Resident, Vermont Studio Center, 2011

  • Merit scholarship recipient, SLS Literary Seminars, Unified Fiction Contest, 2009 & 2010

  • Participant, Squaw Valley Community of Writers Annual conference, 2008

  • Story, “Gravity,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize