• 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Creative Writing Book Award. For a complete novel manuscript.
  • Best American Essays 2022. .Ed. Alexander Chee. “Emerson’s Egypt” cited in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021.”
  • 2022 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize: Longlist Honoree
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose.
    This national creative writing fellowship was awarded for a manuscript and a project proposal. In 2018, 25 fellows were chosen from 1,692 qualified applicants.
  • New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2018, Fiction Fellowship.
    This state funded grant is awarded by discipline and based on manuscript submission.
  • Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Oak Park, IL.
    My story “Everything That’s Something Must Be From Chicago” was selected as first runner up in a contest sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. The award included publication in the magazine.
  • Best American Short Stories, 2016.Ed. Junot Diaz. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. October 4, 2016.Print.
    “The Interrogator Recites a Love Song,” cited on list of“Other Distinguished Stories of 2015.”
  • Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. Office of Recruitment and Diversity. City University of New York. Mentor: Bridgette Davis, Professor of English, Baruch College.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Institute: “Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller.” Concord, MA. July 12-25, 2015. Summer scholarship to participate in two weeks of intensive study and research in Concord, MA with professors, expert scholars, and writers in various aspects of Transcendentalism.