2024

• Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair nominated for the 2023 Elgin Award: Full-Length Book.

• Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award: Superior Achievement in Poetry.

• 2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction, Android Press.

• "A Prayer for the Surviving" nominated for the Rhysling Award (Haven Spec, 2023).

• "Gel Pen Notes from Generation Ship Y" finalist in the short story category of the Clarkesworld Magazine 2023 Reader's Poll.

• "From Wendy to the Lost Boys" nominated for the Rhysling Award (Prismatica Magazine, 2023).

• "Troop No. 80085" nominated for the Rhysling Award (The Deadlands, 2023).

• "The Goth Girls' Gun Gang" nominated for the Rhysling Award (The Dread Machine, 2023).

2023

• "Hyphal knot" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Eye to the Telescope, 2023).

• "in grandmother's homemade house" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Moss Puppy Magazine, 2023).

• Shortlisted for The Aftermath short story contest judged by AC Wise (Uncharted Magazine).

• "The Art of Betraying Others for Food" nominated for the Best of the Net (Coffin Bell, 2022).

• "She Dreams of Moons and Moons" nominated for the 2023 Utopia Award (Strange Horizons, 2022).

• "golem" nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars Award (Star*Line, 2022).

2022

• Winner of the F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest: Flash Fiction. 

• Finalist for the F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest: Flash Fiction. 

• "Between Oak and Acorn, a Sunset Waits" nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award (DreamForge Magazine, 2022).

• Ellen Datlow's Recommendations for Best Horror #14 - Long List.

• "Killing whale" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Ligeia Magazine, 2022).

• "domestic flight" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and the Best of the Net (Nocturne Magazine, 2022).

• "Coronation" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Star*Line, 2022).

• "Oddkin" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Seaside Gothic, 2022).

• Honorable Mention, Science Fiction Poetry Association Annual Poetry Contest.

• Short-listed for the Molotov Cocktail Flash Feast contest. 

• Honorable Mention, Baltimore Science Fiction Society Annual Poetry Contest. 

• Short-listed for the Molotov Cocktail Folked-Up Flash contest. 

2021

• Best Vegan Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2020, Metaphorosis Books 

• Short-listed for the Ghost Orchid Press A Very Ghostly Christmas contest 

• Long-listed for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tale Prize 

2020

• Short-listed for the Sunspot Inception Prize 

• Short-listed & long-listed for the Al Blanchard Award 

• Short-listed for the Defenestrationism !Short Story Contest! 

2019

• Recipient of the Naomi Kitay ’33 Fellowship for a Career in Creative Writing 

• Recipient of the Graduate Fellowship in English & Joseph McGrath Bottkol Fellowship 

2017

• Winner of the Anne Singer Memorial Award 

2016

• Winner of the Anne Singer Memorial Award

• Winner of the Louise Sproule Prize 

• Winner of the Robert P Sibley Prize