Awards
- 2025 Best of the Net for Nonfiction, Folklore Review
- 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards Winner: Anthology Category, Awfully Hilarious
- 2024 Research and Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts
- 2023 Vibrant City Arts Grant, City of Tempe
- 2022 Vibrant City Arts Grant, City of Tempe
- 2022 AETA Teachers as Writers Contest: Poetry Prize
- 2020 Editor’s Pick, Borrowed Solace
- 2018 Tempe Community Writers Contest: Nonfiction Adult Prize
- 2017 Mesa Arts Center and Grant Woods Boys & Girls Club Artist in Residence
- 2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination, BioStories
Publications
- “Baby Blues,” The Lottura Post, September 2025
- “brainchild: postpartum reflections,” motherlore magazine, July 2025
- “because we made it so,” Retrograde Review, April 2025
- “Constant Craving,” Canyon Voices Magazine, December 2024
- “The Exchange,” Fiction Attic Press, November 2024
- “Mother Selkie,” Folklore Review, October 2024 [Best of the Net Nomination]
- “Kingdoms in the Stars,” Folklore Review, March 2024
- “The Monster Inside of Me,” Awfully Hilarious Volume 2: Period Pieces, [2024 Canadian Book Club Awards Winner], March 2024 (also available as an audiobook)
- “Echoes of Dada,” En|Space, October 2023
- “Saturday School,” Arizona English Journal, September 2022
- “My Favorite Failure,” My Favorite Failure, August 2022
- “Saturday School,” AETA Teachers as Writers Contest Winner, July 2022
- “Every Sunset,” and Nesting [Collage], Tucson Zine Fest 2022 Omnibus Zine, April 2022
- “Self-Surgery,” Write on Downtown, April 2022
- “Women’s Work,” Memento Mori: Memento Vivere, Northlight Gallery, September 2021
- “Wing Stop Kids,” Write on Downtown, April 2021
- “Memorandum,” Sediments: Layers of the Phoenix Valley, Vision Gallery, February 2021
- “A Pinch Closer to Heaven,” Borrowed Solace, October 2020 [Editor’s Pick]
- “The Weight of Nothing,” Write on Downtown, May 2020
- “An Afternoon in the Real India,” WOB Lit Magazine, April 2019
- “Prinsengracht 263,” Beautiful Cadavers Project Pittsburgh: Social Justice Anthology, March 2019
- “Depression, Anxiety, and an Asshole Cat,” Uncomfortable Revolution, December 2018
- “Food for Love,” Write on, Downtown, April 2018
- “Intersections: The Valley of the Sun,” Tempe Community Writing Contest Winner, March 2018
- “Sisterhood,” Four Chambers Press’s Anthology In Sight II: Literature + Art, January 2018
- “Intersections,” Crux Magazine, December 2017
- “14 Reasons You Enjoy Breakfast with Gentrifiers,” Unsellable Inventories, July 2017
- “Mizungo,” bioStories, May 2017 [Nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize]
- “Wishes Tied Like Home,” Weaving the Threads: Women + Art + Community, February 2017
- “Girls in the Glass,” Write on, Downtown, May 2015
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