awards & fellowships:

• "The Omari and Pango" selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a finalist in The Porter House Review Editor's Prize, 2020

 

• Winner, 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

 

• Nominated by Jellyfish Review for 2019 Best of the Net ("Older Women")

 

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by MANOA ("Mr. Oh")

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• Scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers Conference

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• James A. Michener Fellowship

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• Writers @ Work Prize

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• Colby Fellowship

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• Roy W. Cowden Fellowship

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• Hopwood Award in Poetry

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• Wagner Prize

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• Ted Shapiro Award