Awards

Fiction Honor
Nebraska Book Awards, 2025

Longlisted
Otherwise Award (2024), 2025

Finalist for Best Horror
Libby Book Awards, 2025

Burnside Review Chapbook Contest, winner
Burnside Review, 2024

Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest, finalist
Hudson Valley Writers Center, 2024

Asian American Chapbook Contest, second place
selected by Lee Herrick
Blue Mountain Review, 2022

Pushcart Prize, nominee
Sweet: A Literary Confection, 2021

Otherwise Fellowship, honorable mention
James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council, 2020

Otherwise Fellowship, honorable mention
James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council, 2019

Pushcart Prize, nominee
Arlington Literary Journal (Gival Press), 2018

Red Lobster (Editors’ Choice) Award
Muse/A Journal, 2018

Oscar Wilde Award
selected by Pablo Miguel Martinez
Gival Press, 2018

Fall 2017 Innovative Prose Contest, winner
580 Split, 2018

New South Prose Contest, winner
selected by Porochista Khakpour
New South, 2017

Best of the Net, nominee
The Boiler Journal, 2017

Da Jiao Award for Creative Nonfiction, finalist
Swati Award for Poetry, finalist
Arcturus, 2017

Individual Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction
Nebraska Arts Council, 2015

Philolexian Prize for Prose
Van Rensselaer Prize for Poetry
Columbia University, 2014 & 2015

Quarto Nonfiction Award
selected by Lena Dunham
Quarto Magazine, 2014

YoungArts Winner in Poetry
YoungArts Foundation, 2014

Davidson Fellowship in Literature
Davidson Institute, 2013