Awards/Honors


“A Girl Who Watched,” Notable in Best American Essays 2025
“Alignment,” Notable in Best American Essays 2021
“Slight,” Notable in Best American Essays 2019 and winner of the 2016 Rafael Torch Literary Nonfiction Award, Crab Orchard Review
“Every Porch a Threshold,” with Jennifer Wortman, winner of the 2019 Sundog Lit Collaboration Contest
“Mädchenfänger,” selected for the 2020 Wigleaf Top 50


Teen Queen Training, finalist for the 2021 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest
“Two Truths and a Lie,” finalist for 2020 Best of the Net and nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize
Teen Queen Training, semi-finalist for the 2023 Seneca Review Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize
Teen Queen Training, semi-finalist for the 2021 Seneca Review Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize
Teen Queen Training, semi-finalist for the 2019 Seneca Review Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize
Teen Queen Training, semi-finalist for the 2019 Awst Press Book Prize
“She’ll Only Come Out at Night,” longlisted for the 2019 Wigleaf Top 50
“Fixing a Hole,” nominated by American Literary Review for the 2022 Pushcart Prize and 2022 Best of the Net
“Michigan, A Mother,” nominated by West Branch for the 2022 Pushcart Prize
“Creepsake,” nominated by Hayden’s Ferry Review for 2021 Best of the Net
“Shadowbox,” nominated by Pithead Chapel for the 2020 Pushcart Prize
“Kristine at the Gun Show,” nominated by Superstition Review for 2019 Best American Travel Writing
“Good Guess,” nominated by cahoodaloodaling for 2019 Best Small Fictions
“She’ll Only Come Out at Night,” nominated by CHEAP POP for the 2018 Pushcart Prize
“Speak,” nominated by Synaesthesia Magazine for 2018 Best of the Net
“The Rules,” nominated by Atlas & Alice for 2018 Best of the Net
“You Entertain Rest,” nominated by the museum of americana for 2018 Best of the Net

Art at Cedar Point Biological Station Residency, 2023
Tin House Winter Workshop in Nonfiction, 2019

  • Graduate Thesis Award, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2017-18
  • Departmental nominee for Elton S. Carter Thesis Award, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2018
  • Departmental nominee for Helen Hanson Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2017-18

Fellowships/Grants

  • 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship ($5000), Nebraska Arts Council
  • Presidential Graduate Fellowship, University of Nebraska System, 2017-18
  • John J. McKenna Graduate Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2017-18
  • Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA) Grant ($4000) for researched creative nonfiction project on immigration/inhabitation on native land, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2017
  • Wardle, Spire, & Lane English Department Graduate Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2016-17
  • John J. McKenna Graduate Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2015-16