2024 Best of the Net Nomination
from Split Lip Magazine for “Galentine’s Day”
2024 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize Honorable Mention
for “Boy Friends” with Isaiah Back-Gaal, judged by Edgar Gomez
2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination
from Gulf Coast for “Queer Paranoia at the Dua Lipa Concert”
2023 Helen Earnhart Harley Award in Nonfiction
judged by Hilary Plum: “I admired this suite of tender, thoughtful examinations of self and world, of queer life and loving, composed with the vivid precision and insistence on questioning that are the gift of the essay form.”
2023 Helen Earnhart Harley Award in Poetry
judged by Farnaz Fatemi: “This group of poems drew me in with its compelling voice, its vivid reflection of a world, and the poet’s control of its energy (and sometimes ebullience). A delight to read and reread.”
2023 AWP Intro Journals Project Finalist in Nonfiction
judged by Sonya Huber
2023 Academy of American Poets’ Arthur Rense Prize Finalist
judged by Shelley Wong
2023 Vanderwater Poetry Prize Honorable Mention
judged by Mag Gabbert
2022 Haidee Forsyth Burkhardt Award in Creative Nonfiction
judged by Bill Roorbach: “This essay, fresh and funny and not a little harrowing, is built on a strong voice and compelling storytelling. It’s frank and unabashed, also unimpressed with its own revelations, the author investigating almost ruefully the self-fulfilling warnings the world offers those who might be different. But only almost ruefully—life is too much fun and excitement for remorse.”
Kurt David 