Winner — 2022 Mountain West Writers Contest at Western Humanities Review (for ‘Feelers’), judged by Susan Neville.

Finalist — Harbor Editions Hybrid Chapbook 2022 contest (for ‘Caveats’).

Recipient of a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship to attend the 2022 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Accepted into the Center for Book Arts 2022 Fine Press Seminar for Emerging Writers.

Recipient of a Travel Grant and a Professional Development Grant from University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council in 2022.

Finalist — Essay Press 2021 Chapbook Contest (for ‘Caveats’).

Winner — Bill Waller Award 2021 (for ‘A Small, Self-Contained Payload’).

“Speculative nonfiction is a tricky road to walk, but this essay lifts us up up up into the stratosphere chronicling the feeling after a breakup. But there is the unexpected and surprising representations of quarantine in this “log,” intended or not, that give this lyric romp through the universe even more depth.” — Aimee Nezhukumatathil, contest judge.

Notable — Memoir Magazine Essay Contest 2018 (for "Spider").

Nominated for Best New Poets 2017.

Nominated for Best of the Net 2016.

Winner — Arch Street Press Prize 2015 (for “The Plural of Fish”).

“‘The Plural of Fish’ stands out as a remarkably perceptive, poetic and finely structured work consisting of short stanzas in a lyric investigation of unsolvable math theorems, triplets, loneliness and human connection.” — Arch Street Press

Winner — Northwestern Edwin L. Shuman Prize 2015.