awards & honors

Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook, February 2024

​

Finalist, Passages North Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, for "When It's Time to Grow Antlers," 2023

​

"Minimizer" recognized as a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2022 

​

Finalist, BOA Editions, Ltd. A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Book Prize , 2022

​

Finalist, The Iowa Review Nonfiction Contest, for "When It's Time to Grow Antlers," 2022

Finalist, Boulevard Emerging Writers Nonfiction Contest, for “When It’s Time to Grow Antlers,” 2021

​

Semi-finalist, Ruminate’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, for “When It’s Time to Grow Antlers,” 2021

​

Port Townsend Writers Conference Centrum Scholarship 2020

​

Finalist, Hedgebrook Nonfiction Residency, for “A Prestigious Calling,” 2020

​

Finalist, Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest,  for “When It’s Time to Grow Antlers,” 2020

​

Finalist, Creative Nonfiction “Power” issue for “A Prestigious Calling,” 2020

​

Finalist, Tuliptree Stories That Need to Be Told contest, for “A Prestigious Calling,” 2020

​

Finalist, The Pinch Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, for “Soft Animal” 2019

​

Honorable Mention, Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Poetry Fellowship, 2019

​

Graduate Research Award, Western Washington University for “A Prestigious Calling” 2019

​

Ross Travel Grant Award, Western Washington University 2018

​

United Graduate Fellow, Texas Tech University 2017

​

Helen DeVitt Jones Foundation Fellow, Texas Tech University 2016