Writing

Honors & Awards

Selected as runner-up for the Adroit Prize in Prose by Kaveh Akbar // The Adroit Journal (2024)

Elizabeth Drew Prize for the Best Thesis in English, Merle Curti Prize, Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize, Elizabeth Drew Fiction Prize, Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize // Smith College (2020-2024)

Five College Prize for Prose // Five College Creative Writing (2023)

Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow & Stone Soup Community Press Scholarship // Lambda Literary (2022)

Aspen Words Emerging Writer // The Aspen Institute (2020)

Presidential Scholar in the Arts // White House Commission on Presidential Scholars (2019)

New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate // Writers Theatre of NJ (2019)