Awards & Honors

  • 2024 Cease Cows - Best Small Fictions Nomination for “Rabbit’s Foot”

  • 2024 Granum Foundation Prize Shortlist for “The Storyteller of Aleppo: A Collection”

  • 2024 Cease Cows - Best of the Net Anthology Nomination for “Rabbit’s Foot”

  • 2024 Hayden’s Ferry Review - Pushcart Prize Nomination for “The Beaching”

  • 2023 Waterwheel Review - Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Omnia Vanitas”

  • 2023 New Flash Fiction Review - Judge’s Commended Prize for “The Storyteller of Aleppo”

  • 2023 Craft - Flash Prose Prize, Honorable Mention for “Flashes of You”

  • 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 judged by Christopher Castellani - 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 Writers Conference

  • American University MFA Program Honors Merit Award and Teaching Fellowship

  • University of Michigan Class Honors