+ “How I Learned to Read: An Abecedarian Primer”: Shenandoah (Spring 2025)

+ "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse": The Main Review (Issue 10.2)

+ "The Disney Look": Anthology: Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women (Black Lawrence Press, 2024)

+ "Which One is the Lifeline?" : The Common: A Modern Sense of Place (Issue 24, 2022)

+ Tin House Reader Fellowship, 2024

+ Finalist for the 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest

+ “Which One is the Lifeline?” named a Notable Essay of 2022 in Best American Essays 2023

+ Tin House Scholar, summer 2023

+ Contributor Award, 2023, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

+ Author Fellowship, Anaphora Writing Residency, 2022

+ 1st place in Nonfiction for Writer on the Verge: Litquake Writing Contest 2016, San Francisco