Awards & Nominations


2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination by Tolsun Books for“Mission Concept” from THERE IS A MAN


2020 Red Hen Press Fiction Prize Winner for the short story collection: If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You Home. 


2018 Braddock Avenue Books Best Small Fictions Anthology Nomination by Flapperhouse for “Mission Concept”


2018 Ellie Award (American Society of Magazine Editors) Nomination by F(r)ictionMagazine for “From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel”


2018 Pushcart Prize Nomination by F(r)iction Magazine for “From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel”


2017 Best of the Net Nomination by Flapperhouse for “Mission Concept”


2017 The F(r)iction Short Story Contest Contest winner: “From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel”


2017 PEN AmericaPEN in the Community Teaching Artist in Residence (Fairfax High School)


2017 PEN AmericaEmerging Voices Fellowship Emerging Voices Fellow


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