Awards & Honors:

· 2025: Winner, the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction
· 2025: Tin House Fall 2025 Online Workshop Scholarship
· 2025: Honorable Mention, 94th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competiton
· 2025: Runner-up, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
· 2025: Finalist & Honorable Mention, the New Voices Award
· 2024: Winner, the McNally Robinson Booksellers Creative Nonfiction Prize
· 2024: Winner, the Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize
· 2024: Finalist, the National Magazine Awards, Canada
· 2023: Winner, the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
· 2023: Honorable Mention, Stephen Mitchell Prize in Translation
· 2023: Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, UBC
· 2023: Iser Steiman Memorial Scholarship in Translation, UBC
· 2023: Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2023, selected by Robert Atwan
· 2016: Excellence in Creative Writing Scholarship, St. Mary’s College
· 2015: English Composition Teaching Fellowship, Saint Mary’s College
· 2015: MFA Advisory Board Scholarship, Saint Mary’s College of California