2024- one of three finalists for the Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship

2024 – Tin House winter workshop, nonfiction

2023 – Kenyon Review teacher’s workshop

2023 – Lighthouse LitFest advanced workshop, nonfiction 

2023 – Tin House winter workshop, nonfiction

2022 – June 30/30 poet for Tupelo Press

2022 – finalist in Ruminate Magazine’s flash essay contest

2022 – semi-finalist in Ruminate Magazine’s poetry contest

2021 – Bread Loaf conference, nonfiction

2018 – Linda Bierds and Carol Houck Smith Scholarship at Pacific Lutheran University, Rainier Writers Workshop

2018 – Panelist at Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Colorado – How to Launch a Literary Career

2017 Mineral School Residency – Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship

2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination – Connected, Delmarva Review, 2016

2004 – Best Newswriting Award, Colorado Presss Association