selected honors
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions — 2022 Longlist
The Pushcart Prize — 2022 Nominee [GASHER Journal]
Best Microfiction — 2022 Nominee [SmokeLong Quarterly]
The Adroit Journal — 2023 Anthony Veasna So Scholar Finalist, 2020 Finalist for the Adroit Prize for Prose
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]
Winner of — The Fitzgerald Museum Literary Contest [2021], The California Young Playwrights Contest [2020], The Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Contest [2018, Fiction], The New York Times Summer Reading Contest [2017]