Awards & Honors
Finalist in Lunch Ticket's Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction (2019)
Semi-Finalist in the 7th annual Jack Grapes’ Poetry Prize at Cultural Weekly (2019)
2019 Poetry Half-Marathon Winner
1st Place, Inner Sins' 2015 Horror Poetry Contest: "A Child's Plea"
A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2013 Tillie Olsen Fellow
Pushcart Nomination: "The Last Silver Button"
NYC Midnight 2013 Flash Fiction 5th Place Finalist
Gemini Ink 2013 Summer Festival Workshop Scholarship Recipient
Spirited Woman Foundation Spirit Scarf Award, August 2013
Bartleby Snopes August 2012 Story of the Month: "The Last Silver Button"
National Novel Writing Month Winner 2012
My Family Travels 2007 Essay Competition Finalist: "A Japanese Lesson"
Semi-Finalist in the 7th annual Jack Grapes’ Poetry Prize at Cultural Weekly (2019)
2019 Poetry Half-Marathon Winner
1st Place, Inner Sins' 2015 Horror Poetry Contest: "A Child's Plea"
A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2013 Tillie Olsen Fellow
Pushcart Nomination: "The Last Silver Button"
NYC Midnight 2013 Flash Fiction 5th Place Finalist
Gemini Ink 2013 Summer Festival Workshop Scholarship Recipient
Spirited Woman Foundation Spirit Scarf Award, August 2013
Bartleby Snopes August 2012 Story of the Month: "The Last Silver Button"
National Novel Writing Month Winner 2012
My Family Travels 2007 Essay Competition Finalist: "A Japanese Lesson"