Fellowships and Grants
Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, 2025.
Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University, 2026-2028.
50th Anniversary Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2024
Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 2022
Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellowship, Inprint Houston, 2022
LitUp Fellowship, Reese’s Book Club, 2022
Awards
Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, judged by Jameelah Lang, 2026.
“An acrobatic, sharply rendered story centered on a medical resident’s encounter with an Elon-Musk-like billionaire. Its world is drawn with such striking specificity that I felt convinced of the truth contained within this fiction. The piece combines incisive humor with a piercing meditation on adulthood, responsibility, and self-positioning, resulting in a work of fiction that is both entertaining and deeply perceptive. I would have read many more pages about these characters and this world.”
The Masters Review’s Best Emerging Writers Award, 2026.
Narrative Story Contest, 2023
John Weston Award for Fiction, judged by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, 2021
“I was moved by the tender portrayal of the mother/daughter relationship; it was poignant and recognizable, yet not at all sentimental. I also appreciated the space and attention that the story gives to the narrator’s work—the geographic specificity of it, the physical and emotional costs, the way it reveals the lie of a private liberal arts education.”
The Florida Review Editors’ Award in Nonfiction, 2021
John Weston Award for Fiction, judged by Andrea Lawlor, 2020
“Funny, sharp, gorgeously written, and so rich; I love all the little details of this story, and most of all, of course, Claudia's transformations.”
The Pinch’s Nonfiction Literary Award, judged by Elissa Washuta, 2019
“This essay [Clay Girl Becomes Clay Woman] contains shifts, rhythms, and layers that bring to the page the unpredictable movements of the mind that recovers from trauma. Its focal points sharpen and then, just as quickly, dissolve into breakage. There is so much power in every surprising stop and especially in the loving heat of the arrival. ”
Passages North Ray Ventre Nonfiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2019
AWP Intro Journal Award for Fiction, judged by Robert James Russell, 2019
John Weston Award for Fiction, judged by Venita Blackburn, 2018
“Galilee, if you Squint” has an awareness of unique cultural significance and presents feminine identity as an imposition through a character that lifts out of the ink to shake the boundaries of her own world, making it truly outstanding.”