Distinguished Short Story | “Pilgrim”
Best American Short Stories: 2022, edited by Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor
Finalist, Nonfiction Prize | “Bahji”
Crazyhorse, 2022, selected by Matthew Ortile
Nominee, Best American Poetry 2019 | “I Am the Dead Thing Below”
Hayden’s Ferry, 2019
Nominee, Pushcart Prize | “That He Had a Father”
Florida Review, 2019
Nominee, Pushcart Prize | “We Have All Been Dead”
Bellingham Review, 2018
Nominee, Pushcart Prize | “What Would Rumi Do?”
Radius: Poetry from the Center to the Edge, 2018
Nominee, The Best Small Fictions 2019 | “Hospice”
Connotation Press, Fall 2018
Finalist, 1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest | “Imaginary Things”
Midway Journal, 2018
Honorable Mention, Very Short Fiction Award | “Girl, Upside-down”
Glimmer Train, 2018
2nd Prize, Press 53 Open Awards | “Foundling”
Press 53, 2012
Winner/1st Place, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize | “Stories My Mother Told Me”
Ruminate Magazine, 2012
Honorable Mention, Just Desserts Contest | “Girl”
Passages North, 2012, selected by Roxane Gay
Nominee, Pushcart Prize | “In Perfect English”
Carolina Quarterly, 2012
3rd Place, Family Matters Contest | “My Mother’s Hands in My Mouth”
Glimmer Train, October 2011
Winner/1st Place, Orlando Prize for Short Fiction | “Heart of a Locust”
A Room of Her Own: A Foundation for Women Writers & Artists, 2010
3rd Place, Very Short Fiction Award |“In Perfect English”
Glimmer Train, 2010
Nominee, Pushcart Prize | “In the Middle of Many Mountains”
Meridian, 2010
Finalist, Editors’ Prize | “In the Middle of Many Mountains”
Meridian, 2009