AWARDS, RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS

Awards

  • 2025 Workshop Fellowship Award, Key West Literary Seminar

  • 2024 Pruitt-Meinke Fellow, Eckerd College Writers’ Conference

  • 2023 PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys

  • 2023 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction for “The Demulcent of Shame”

  • Monson Arts Award (Feb. ‘23)

  • Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant (Feb. ‘23)

  • Bread Loaf Writers Conference Nonfiction Contributor Award (‘22)

  • The de Groot Foundation LANDO Grant, Finalist (March ‘23 and ‘24)

  • MVICW Poet & Author Fellowship (Feb. ‘24)

  • Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project Fellow, Finalist (July ‘24)

  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Finalist (Jan. ‘24)

  • Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, Honorable Mention for War Boys (Nov ‘22)

Residencies

  • Ragdale, Illinois (Oct. ‘24)

  • The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home (March ‘24)

  • Ucross, Wyoming (Nov. ‘23)

  • Hambidge, Georgia (Aug. ‘23)

  • Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Iceland (May ‘23)

  • Monson Arts, Maine (April ‘23)

    • Monson Arts Award

  • Prospect Street Writers House, Vermont (July ‘22)

    • PSWH Residency Grant

  • Sundress Academy for the Arts, Tennessee (May ‘22)

    In addition to the above, I’ve been offered residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Wildacres, Art Farm, Studio Faire, Stiwdio Maelor, and Write On, Door County.

Writing Workshops

  • Key West Literary Seminar, with Safiya Sinclair, Florida (‘25)

  • Tin House Winter Workshop, with Edgar Gomez, Online (‘24)

  • Eckerd College Writers’ Conference (Writers in Paradise), with Ann Hood, Florida (‘24)

  • Juniper Summer Writing Institute, with T Kira Madden, Massachusetts (‘23)

  • Eckerd College Writers’ Conference (Writers in Paradise), with Madeleine Blais, Florida (‘23)

    • AWP Scholarship

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, with Melissa Febos, Vermont (‘22)

  • GrubStreet, Memoir Incubator with Alysia Abbott, Massachusetts (‘22)

  • George Mason University, MFA in Creative Nonfiction, with Bev Lowry and Ralph Eubanks, Virginia (‘06)

  • Oberlin College, BA in Creative Writing, with Dan Chaon and Sylvia Watanabe, Ohio (‘01)