Awards & Recognition

2023 Best of the Net nominee by Okay Donkey for the short story “Sparkle Time.”

2020 Winner of the Jerome Irving Bank Prize for the short story “Indiana Hotter.”Best of the Net nominee by Drunk Monkeys for the poem “Eulogy to the boy I played “Stop Smoking” by Car Seat Headrest for after leaving a dive bar at 2am.”

2018 Finalist, the Phyllis C. Whitesell Prize for the ethnographic essay “It’s All Downhill from Here: Social Justice and its Intersections with Skiing and Snowboarding.”

2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (3 Gold Keys, 3 Silver Keys, 2 Honorable Mentions). Top-10 Finalist out of 1,800 entries in the Columbia College of Chicago Young Author’s Contest for the personal essay “Soft Stuff.” Winner of Teen Vogue’s March 2017 Lit Club Contest. Winner of the Howard E. Morgan Creative Writing Prize. Winner of the Stephen Hopkins Kalbach ’72 Prize in Creative Writing.

2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2 Gold Keys, 1 Silver Key, 2 Honorable Mentions). Winner of the 2016 DeSales University Poetry Contest for the poem “Dancer’s Love Letter.” Named “Main Line Student of the Week” for November 22nd.

2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2 Gold Keys, 3 Silver Keys, 2 Honorable Mentions). Winner of the Stephen Hopkins Kalbach ’72 Prize in Creative Writing.

2014 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2 Gold Keys, 2 Silver Keys, 5 Honorable Mentions).