2024                     Winner, The Courage to Write Award by the de Groot Foundation

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2024                     Scholar, Student Scholar Fund by Pitt's Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice

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2024                     Winner, The Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction

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2023                     Finalist, Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism

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2023                     Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

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2023                     Scholar, Tin House Writing Workshop

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2023                     Scholar, Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway by Murphy Writing of Stockton University

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2022—2025          Dietrich Fellow, MFA in Creative Writing, University of Pittsburgh

 

2022—2024          Heinz Fellow, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

 

2021                     Finalist, Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism

 

2021                     Journalist Fellow, Logan Nonfiction Fellowship

 

2020                    Writer Resident, Lesser Amman Library, MMAG Foundation