Highlights

• The Warmth of Ashes – 1st Place in the 13th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-book Awards, Science Fiction category
• “The Lemon Tree” – 2nd Place, American Literary Review Fiction Contest 2025
• “Ink / Mud” – 2nd Place, 2019 Hackney Literary Awards
• “Sentimental Cartography” nominated for Pushcart Prize
• “Terra Incognita” – Honorable Mention, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize 2018

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Full Portfolio

• “The Lemon Tree”
  • Forthcoming in the American Literary Review, Spring 2026
  • 2nd Place, American Literary Review Fiction Contest 2025
• “Relevant Person” – Honorable Mention, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2024
• “Antenatal” in Whisk(e)y Tit Journal, November 2024
• “Studiers of Stone” in Whisk(e)y Tit Journal, November 2024
• “Conjugation” selected for Apollo’s Decathlon exhibit at Château de Montsoreau Museum of Contemporary Art, May 2024
• “Ink / Mud”
  • Published in The Birmingham Arts Journal, September 2020
  • 2nd Place, 2019 Hackney Literary Awards
• “Sentimental Cartography”
  • Published in The Journal (Ohio State), February 2020
  • Nominated for Pushcart Prize
• “Crow Calls” – Honorable Mention, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2018
• “Terra Incognita”
  • Published in Ruminate Magazine, Fall 2018
  • Honorable Mention, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize 2018
• “Hiraeth” in Bamboo Telegraph, July/August 2018
• “Salvage” in Bamboo Telegraph, May/June 2018
• “Turpentine” in Wraparound South, Winter/Spring 2018
• “The Ride Home” in The Shanghai Literary Review, July 2017
• “The Temple of Great Virtue” in Thoughtful Dog Magazine, March 2017
• “Washing Up” in FIVE:2:ONE, March 2017
• “Why I Thought of You at the Duchess County Fair” in the Singapore American Newspaper, March 2014
• “Water and Spice” – Honorable Mention, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2013
• “Note: One Hand is Meant to Be Unseen” in Verse Noire, Fall 2006
• Invited to read at 11th Biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, July 2006
• “Trust” in The Apprentice Writer, May 2006
• Winner of Sixteenth Rutgers Newark New Jersey High School Poetry Contest, April 2006
• “Saving Us” and “Gravity” read at the 9th Annual Family Week Poetry Jam, New Jersey Theatre Alliance, April 2006