fiction

poetry

awards & fellowships & conferences

  • Wallace Stetegner Fellow in Fiction, Stanford University 2024-2026

  • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow 2024

  • Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow 2023-2024

  • Storyknife Writers Retreat 2023

  • Runner-up Witness Magazine Literary Award 2023

  • Periplus Fellow 2023

  • Tin House Winter Workshop 2022

  • Honorable Mention, Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Fiction 2022

    “From the first rhythmic and unfettered line [HATS & BATS] thrums with heat, love, outrage and possibility. In the narrative and in the writing, barriers are ripped down. In this world, the inhabitants don’t sleep when exhausted, but burn, mingling in streets of fire, violence and protest. The story is about war, but a glittering war, wherein the soldiers—as always in our American streets—are the young and dispossessed. It made me think of Orwell in his early down and out life in Paris and London. It brims with honesty, clarity and a driving crystal-vision. Somehow, miraculously, the author manages to turn this war story towards a glorious new future coming.” — Robin McLean

  • MASS MoCA Artist-in-Residence 2022

  • Bread Loaf Virtual Writers’ Conference 2021

  • St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2021

  • Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction 2021

    “What I admired most about [You Belong in Gray] was its attention to lived detail. It reminded me that the real reason for such close attention to human behavior and to the rhythms of all cultures—workplace, family, identity—is not to convince us of the truth of the world but to test, and force us to dispose of, our assumptions. A beautifully crafted and realized story.” — Hasanthika Sirisena

  • VONA/Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Workshop 2018