HONORS & WORKSHOPS
Honors & Scholarships
Indiana University, 2015-2018
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Neal-Marshall Fellowship
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Earle J. S. Ho Award for Excellence in Teaching Creative Writing
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English Graduate Student Travel Award
Agnes Scott College, 2009-2013
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Summa Cum Laude
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Agnes Scott College Dean’s Honor List
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Robert Frost Prize in Creative Writing
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Mary Taylor Lipscomb Garrity Award
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Sigma Tau Delta
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Phi Beta Kappa
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Mortar Board
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Founders’ Scholarship
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Dana Scholarship
Contests
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StoryQuarterly's Sixth Annual Fiction Prize, 2019
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Second Runner-Up: "Selected Episodes from Wartime Philippines on a Saturday Night"
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Best Small Fictions, 2017
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Nominee: "Backyard Dirge," Reservoir
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Midwestern Gothic’s Summer Flash Fiction Series, 2016
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Finalist: “Broken Glass"
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Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, 2015
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Finalist: “Hunger, Hands, Nails”
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Kore Press Short Fiction Award, 2015
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Semifinalist: “Hunger, Hands, Nails”
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Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival, 2013
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Fiction Finalist: “The Lady Vanishes”
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Nonfiction Finalist: “Skin”
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Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival, 2012
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Nonfiction Winner: “Two Fountains”
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Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival, 2011
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Fiction Finalist: “Her”
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Fellowships & Residencies
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Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, July 2020
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Fiction Juror, Winter 2021 - Spring 2022
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Fulbright Research Grant, Metro Manila, the Philippines, 2018-2019
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The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Oak Bluffs, MA, June 2018
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Alumni Award Fellowship
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Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Palembang, Indonesia, 2013-2014
Workshops
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NVM & Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, 2019
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Fall Master Class with Meg Pokrass and Robert Shapard, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015