Selected Honors and Awards
2022 Finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, Atlas of Disquiet (University of Wisconsin Press).
2022 Shortlist, Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize.
2022 Winner, First Book Scholarship, Gasher Press.
2022 Finalist, Bread Loaf Scholarship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
2022 Finalist, The Previously Published Poem Prize, Palette Poetry.
2020 Nomination for my poem “En Route to Makkah” from The Cincinnati Review for The Orison Anthology.
2020 Honorable Mention, John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award.
2017 Writer-in-Residence, Sundress Academy of Arts, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2017 Winner, VIDA Residency Fellowship.
2017 Finalist, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016 Nomination for my poem “Brother” from Hermeneutic Chaos for Bettering American Poetry.
2016 “Brother” on “Recommended Reading: 2016,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
2012-2014, Fulbright Scholarship, U.S. Department of State.
2022 Finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, Atlas of Disquiet (University of Wisconsin Press).
2022 Shortlist, Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize.
2022 Winner, First Book Scholarship, Gasher Press.
2022 Finalist, Bread Loaf Scholarship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
2022 Finalist, The Previously Published Poem Prize, Palette Poetry.
2020 Nomination for my poem “En Route to Makkah” from The Cincinnati Review for The Orison Anthology.
2020 Honorable Mention, John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award.
2017 Writer-in-Residence, Sundress Academy of Arts, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2017 Winner, VIDA Residency Fellowship.
2017 Finalist, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016 Nomination for my poem “Brother” from Hermeneutic Chaos for Bettering American Poetry.
2016 “Brother” on “Recommended Reading: 2016,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
2012-2014, Fulbright Scholarship, U.S. Department of State.
