AWARDS, RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS

Awards

  • PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys

  • 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Germany

  • 2025 Aurora Polaris Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for War Boys, Trio House Press

  • 2025 Norma Watkins Scholarship, MCWC

  • 2025 Jack Straw Writing Fellow at Jack Straw Cultural Center

  • 2025 Workshop Fellowship Award, Key West Literary Seminar

  • 2025 Book Project Fellowship Finalist, Lighthouse Writers Workshop

  • 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards Finalist for “Wound Care”

  • 2024 Pruitt-Meinke Fellow, Eckerd College Writers’ Conference

  • 2024 MVICW Poet & Author Fellowship

  • 2024 and 2023 de Groot Foundation LANDO Grant, Finalist

  • 2023 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction for “The Demulcent of Shame”

  • 2023 Monson Arts Award

  • 2023 Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant

  • 2022 Bread Loaf Writers Conference Nonfiction Contributor Award

  • 2022 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, Honorable Mention for War Boys

Residencies

  • Ragdale, Illinois (Oct. ‘24)

  • The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home (March ‘24)

  • Ucross, Wyoming (Nov. ‘23)

  • Hambidge, Georgia (Aug. ‘23)

  • Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Iceland (May ‘23)

  • Monson Arts, Maine (April ‘23)

    • Monson Arts Award

  • Prospect Street Writers House, Vermont (July ‘22)

    • PSWH Residency Grant

  • Sundress Academy for the Arts, Tennessee (May ‘22)

    In addition to the above, I’ve been offered residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Wildacres, Art Farm, Studio Faire, Stiwdio Maelor, and Write On, Door County.

Writing Workshops

  • Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, with Byron Aspaas, California (‘25)

  • Tin House YA Workshop, with Jonny Garza Villa, Oregon (‘25)

  • Key West Literary Seminar, with Safiya Sinclair, Florida (‘25)

  • Tin House Winter Workshop, with Edgar Gomez, Online (‘24)

  • Eckerd College Writers’ Conference (Writers in Paradise), with Ann Hood, Florida (‘24)

  • Juniper Summer Writing Institute, with T Kira Madden, Massachusetts (‘23)

  • Eckerd College Writers’ Conference (Writers in Paradise), with Madeleine Blais, Florida (‘23)

    • AWP Scholarship

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, with Melissa Febos, Vermont (‘22)

  • GrubStreet, Memoir Incubator with Alysia Abbott, Massachusetts (‘22)

  • George Mason University, MFA in Creative Nonfiction, with Bev Lowry and Ralph Eubanks, Virginia (‘06)

  • Oberlin College, BA in Creative Writing, with Dan Chaon and Sylvia Watanabe, Ohio (‘01)