Recognitions
2025 Writer Fellow in Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2025 Artist in Residence, The Arab American National Museum
2024 Winner, Samir Kassir Freedom of Press Award, the EU and the Samir Kassir Foundation
2024-25 Fellow, Steinbeck Fellowship, San Jose State University
2024 Winner, The Courage to Write Grant, the de Groot Foundation
2024 Winner, The Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction, University of Pittsburgh
2024 Scholar, Returning Participant Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2024 Scholar, Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference
2024 Scholar, Maat Scholarship, Community of Writers' Workshop
2024 Scholar, Student Scholar Fund, Pitt's Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice
2023 Finalist, Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism
2023 Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2023 Scholar, Tin House Writers' Workshop
2023 Scholar, Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway by Murphy Writing of Stockton University
2022-23 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