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Awards and Honors

2022 Legacy PhD Fellowship, Florida State University

2019 Fulbright ETA, Czechia

2017 Boulevard Literary Journal Short Story Prize for “Certain Fires”

2016 & 2017 Runner-up, Joyce Carol Oates fiction prize, Syracuse University

2015 Orlin prize for overall Capstone, Syracuse University

2015 FLAS award in Hindi

2015 Stephen Crane Prize for undergraduate fiction, Syracuse University

2015 Lauretta H. McCaffrey Prize for GPA, Syracuse University

2014/15 Remembrance Scholar, Syracuse University

2014 Garfinkel Scholarship for outstanding ETS major, Syracuse University

2014 Margaret Y Cragg Prize for highest GPS, Syracuse University

Education

Florida State University, PhD in English and Creative Writing, beginning June 2022

Syracuse University M.F.A., Fiction, 2018

Syracuse University B.A., English and Film Theory, summa cum laude, with honors 2015

Publications

HOTSHOT, nonfiction book currently under contract with Grove Atlantic

2020 Bellevue Literary Review (nonfiction)

2019 Hobart (nonfiction)

2017 Boulevard (fiction)

Various nonfiction: High Country News, Vox, Bitch, Crosscut, Tricycle Magazine, amongst others.

Residencies

2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, six weeks

2016 Stone Quarry Sculpture Park

Teaching Experience

2022-current: Florida State University, Writing Composition

2022 Hugo House, Seattle, WA (adult literature)

2019-2020 Fulbright ETA, Czechia (ESL)

2018 Syracuse University, Creative Writing (summer program)

2018-2019 Punahou School, Creative Writing & English (high-school & middle school)

2016-2018 Syracuse University (Composition I/II with an eye towards intersectionality)

2016-2018 Syracuse University Writing Center Tutor (graduate and undergraduate)

2015 Syracuse University, Creative Writing Assistant (summer program)

2012-2014 Syracuse University, Literacy Corps Tutor

Other Employment

April 2020-Current, freelance writer, ghostwriter, and copyeditor, various

May 2021-March 2022, social media and studio manager for Sangha Yoga Studio

May 2021-Current, yoga teacher in-studio, Seattle, WA