Literary Awards & Contests

Honorable Mention • The Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, Seneca Review Books
“Painmemory”
2026

Semifinalist • Sundress Publications Poetry Broadside Contest
Poem, “an abecedarian blooms on a building”
2025

Semifinalist • The Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award
Essay/Text-Image, “Clouded”
The Center for Women Writers International Literary Awards
2019

First Place: Image-Text Category • The Ithaca College Writing Contest
Video Essay, “It's You.”
2018

Sally Parr Memorial Award
Department of Writing at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Awarded to students within the major graduating with 4.0 GPA
2018

The Judge’s Prize • The Ithaca College Writing Contest
Video Essay, “I'm Still Trying to Come Up with Grounding Strategies”
Overall genre excellence
2017

First Place: Personal Essay Category • The Ithaca College Writing Contest
Essay, “Breaking Open”
2016

Grant • Boldface Emerging Writers Conference
Awarded by Department of Writing at Ithaca College
Conference held at University of Houston, Houston, TX
Summer 2016