selected honors

Yale Daily News Magazine — 2026 Peter J. Wallace Memorial Prize for Fiction, Third Place

Yale University Department of English — 2025 Elmore E. Willets Prize for Fiction

The Adroit Journal — 2025 Runner-Up for the Adroit Prize for Prose, 2023 Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction Finalist, 2020 Finalist for the Adroit Prize for Prose

Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions — 2022 Longlist

The Pushcart Prize — 2022 Nominee [GASHER Journal]

Best Microfiction — 2022 Nominee [SmokeLong Quarterly]

The National YoungArts Foundation — 2020 Finalist in Writing [Short Story], 2020 Finalist in Writing [Script], & 2019 Honorable Mention in Writing [Short Story]

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — 2021 Gold Medal [Short Story], 2021 Gold Medal [Memoir], 2020 Gold Medal [Short Story], 2020 Gold Medal [Memoir], 2020 American Voices Medal, & 2019 Gold Medal [Script]