Writing & Storytelling

Vermont Studio Center | Fellowship & Residency 2025

The Best American Short Stories, edited by Lauren Groff | Notable Selection 2024

Montreal International Poetry Prize | Finalist 2024

Marianne Russo Award for Emerging Writers | Semi-Finalist 2024

Juniper Summer Writing Institute | Institute Fellow 2024

UMass Amherst School of Earth and Sustainability | Scholarship 2023

UMass Amherst’s Cara Parravani Memorial Prize | Honorable Mention, Fiction 2023 & 2024

Tin House Winter Workshop | Fiction 2023

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop | Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship for Emerging Writers | Fiction 2022

Bread Loaf Writers Workshop | Contributor Award, fully funded scholarship from Bread Loaf | Fiction 2021

Kenyon Review Writers Workshop | Fiction 2021

Pushcart Prize Nomination | Fiction 2019

Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award | Finalist, Documentary 2018

Teaching

Peggy Woods Award for Innovative Teaching | UMass Amherst’s Writing Program | 2025

Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University Teachers College | Klingenstein Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers | 2021

Teaching Fellow at Culver Academies | 2018-2020

Readings & OTHER SERVICE

Prose Judge, The Five Colleges Poetry and Prose Prize | 2025

Alumni Panelist, “Careers for English Majors” Panel at Villanova University | 2025

LiveLit Reading Series (Amherst, MA) | 2024

The Futuring Lab: Interactive Futurings (Amherst, MA) | 2023

Juniper Institute: Writer’s Life Talks (Amherst, MA) | 2023

LiveLit Reading Series (Amherst, MA) | 2022