Photo by Hannah Mathews (2022)
Awards
2024
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"in grandmother's homemade house" nominated for the Best of the Net 2025 (Moss Puppy Magazine, 2023).
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"I've always loved darkness best" nominated for the Best of the Net 2025 (Epistemic Literary, 2024).
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Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair nominated for the 2023 Elgin Award: Full-Length Book.
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Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award: Superior Achievement in Poetry.
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2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction, Android Press.
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"As the witch burns" finalist for the Rhysling Award (Fantasy Magazine, 2023).
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"A Prayer for the Surviving" finalist for the Rhysling Award (Haven Spec, 2023).
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"Gel Pen Notes from Generation Ship Y" finalist in the short story category of the Clarkesworld Magazine 2023 Reader's Poll.
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"From Wendy to the Lost Boys" nominated for the Rhysling Award (Prismatica Magazine, 2023).
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"Troop No. 80085" nominated for the Rhysling Award (The Deadlands, 2023).
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"The Goth Girls' Gun Gang" finalist for the Rhysling Award (The Dread Machine, 2023).
2023
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"Hyphal knot" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Eye to the Telescope, 2023).
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"in grandmother's homemade house" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Moss Puppy Magazine, 2023).
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Shortlisted for The Aftermath short story contest judged by AC Wise (Uncharted Magazine).
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"The Art of Betraying Others for Food" nominated for the Best of the Net (Coffin Bell, 2022).
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"She Dreams of Moons and Moons" nominated for the 2023 Utopia Award (Strange Horizons, 2022).
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"golem" nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars Award (Star*Line, 2022).
2022
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Winner of the F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest: Flash Fiction.
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Finalist for the F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest: Flash Fiction.
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"Between Oak and Acorn, a Sunset Waits" nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award (DreamForge Magazine, 2022).
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Ellen Datlow's Recommendations for Best Horror #14 - Long List.
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"Killing whale" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Ligeia Magazine, 2022).
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"domestic flight" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and the Best of the Net (Nocturne Magazine, 2022).
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"Coronation" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Star*Line, 2022).
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"Oddkin" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (Seaside Gothic, 2022).
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Honorable Mention, Science Fiction Poetry Association Annual Poetry Contest.
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Short-listed for the Molotov Cocktail Flash Feast contest.
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Honorable Mention, Baltimore Science Fiction Society Annual Poetry Contest.
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Short-listed for the Molotov Cocktail Folked-Up Flash contest.
2021
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Best Vegan Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2020, Metaphorosis Books
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Short-listed for the Ghost Orchid Press A Very Ghostly Christmas contest
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Long-listed for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tale Prize
2020
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Short-listed for the Sunspot Inception Prize
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Short-listed & long-listed for the Al Blanchard Award
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Short-listed for the Defenestrationism !Short Story Contest!
2019
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Recipient of the Naomi Kitay ’33 Fellowship for a Career in Creative Writing
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Recipient of the Graduate Fellowship in English & Joseph McGrath Bottkol Fellowship
2017
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Winner of the Anne Singer Memorial Award
2016
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Winner of the Anne Singer Memorial Award
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Winner of the Louise Sproule Prize
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Winner of the Robert P Sibley Prize