Awards & Honors

2025 - Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region)

2025 - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Fellowship

2025 - Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence

2025 - Frances W. Kerr Award for Excellence in Fiction (runner up), University of Missouri

2025 - Shaw Opportunities for Excellence Award, University of Missouri

2024 - Stanley L. Maxwell Fellowship, University of Missouri

2024 - Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, University of Maryland

2024 - The Chautauqua Janus Prize (finalist)

2024 - Writers’ Workshop Scholarship, Key West Literary Seminar

2023 - Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar

2023 - Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices Scholarship

2022 - Clarion West, Elliott Alexander Memorial Scholarship

2022 - Columbia Journal Print Contest (finalist)

2019 - Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (shortlist)

2018 - Gabriel García Márquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism

2017 - Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa

2017 - Writer-in-residence, International Writing Program