curriculum vitae

2024

Resident, Writers-in-Residence Program (September 2024), Hedgebrook

50th Anniversary Fellow, Artist-in-Residence Program (August 2024), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)

Special Mention, 2024 Pushcart Prize for “Surrogates” (2023)

Micrograntee, 2024 Alumni Microgrant Program, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers

2023

Winner, 2024 Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award, Key West Literary Seminar, selected by Cecelia Joyce Johnson

Fellow, Artist-in-Residence Program (September 2023), Willapa Bay AiR

Semi-Finalist, Writing Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center

Recipient, Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction, Inprint Houston, selected by Thomas Calder

2022

Finalist, Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award, 2023 Key West Literary Seminar

Fiction Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Scholarship Recipient, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference

Recipient, Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, Elizabeth George Foundation

Recipient, Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, Inprint Houston, selected by Ashley Wurzbacher

Recipient, Tagore Scholarship, Tagore Society of Houston and UH India Studies

2021

Pushcart Prize Nominee for “Long Division” (Ecotone)

Fiction Scholar/Tennessee Williams Scholarship Recipient, Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Recipient, Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship, Graduate School and Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), University of Houston

2020

Recipient, Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, University of Houston

Alumni Resident, A Suite of One’s Own, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers

2019

Recipient, Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship, Osaka, Japan

Second Runner-Up, Writing Fellowship, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing

Semi-Finalist, Writing Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center

Finalist (Top 25), Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers

2017

“Hurry Up and Wait,” Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, curated by Adriel Luis, September 1 – December 15, Video: Asian Arts Initiative Highlights Immigration Through Art by Jenny Roberts

Honorable Mention, Phi Kappa Sigma Fiction Prize, University of Pennsylvania