Awards & Honors
2024 Hayden’s Ferry Review Pushcart Prize Nomination for “The Beaching”
2023 Waterwheel Review Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Omnia Vanitas”
2023 New Flash Fiction Commended Prize for “The Storyteller of Aleppo”
2022 South 85 Journal Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Paraiso”
2022 Julia Peterkin Literary Award for Flash Fiction & Poetry First Runner-up Winner for “Paraiso”
2022 New Millennium Writing Awards, Honorable Mention for “We Dug Beneath”
2013 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, Honorable Mention for “Caravan”
2013 Stanford’s Commute Campaign Photography Award for “Meditation on a Mountaintop”
1995 Seventeen Magazine Fiction Prize Finalist for “Where Things Go Up”
Alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Sirenland
American University MFA Program Honors Merit Award and Teaching Fellowship