Selected Writing

Honors & Awards

Elizabeth Drew Prize for the Best Thesis in English // Smith College (2024)

Merle Curti Prize // Smith College (2023)

Five College Prize for Prose // Honored as the prose writer for Smith College (2023)

Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow & Stone Soup Community Press Scholarship // Lambda Literary (2022)

Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize // Smith College (2022)

Elizabeth Drew Fiction Prize // Smith College (2022)

Aspen Words Emerging Writer // The Aspen Institute (2020)

Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize // Smith College (2020)

Presidential Scholar in the Arts // White House Commission on Presidential Scholars (2019)

New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate // Writers Theatre of NJ (2019)


Fiction

excerpt from Horse Girls [Selected as runner-up for the Adroit Prize in Prose by Kaveh Akbar] | The Adroit Journal

Everything Must Go // Cerealization

Alex // The Hunger

Locations // YoungArts Reading

Seven Confessions // Lunch Ticket


Poetry

Learning // Poets Reading the News

Rome // Waltham Forest Poetry Competition.


Nonfiction

I’m A Teenager And I Don’t Like Young Adult Novels. Here’s Why. // Huffington Post

Blog Posts, 2016-2020 // Writing With Style