Select Awards & Honors

• 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, The Paris Review, for “Under the Ackee Tree.”
• 2020 ASME National Magazine Award for Fiction, The Paris Review, for “Under the Ackee Tree.”
• 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (Prose) Literature Fellowship.
• 2020 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico Residency Grant.
• 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize Finalist, for “If I Survive You.”
• 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship.
• 2019 Provost Fellowship Recipient, University of Southern California.
• 2019 Anderson Center Residency Fellowship.
• 2019 Chautauqua Janus Prize Finalist, for “Under the Ackee Tree.”
• 2018 Distinguished Story Citation, The Best American Short Stories, “In Flux.”
• 2018 Literary Death Match Winner. Boston. Ep. 16.
• 2018 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-study Scholarship.
• 2018 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, for “Chasing Carlos.”
• 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Semifinalist.
• 2017-2018 Wellspring House Fellowship.
• 2017 Pushcart Prize nomination, Passages North, for “In Flux.”
• 2017 Kimbilio Fiction Fellowship.
• 2017 Ivan Gold Fellowship (The Writers’ Room of Boston).
• 2017 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship.
• 2016 Waasnode Fiction Prize Winner, Passages North, for “In Flux.”
• 2016 Editor’s Pick, Solstice Literary Magazine Summer Contest, for “Stripper Pants.”