Awards and Scholarships

Scribente Maternum “You Deserve to Be Here” Scholarship (Dec. Retreat) – 2024
Mcknight Doctoral Fellowship [Four-year distinction] – 2024-2028
James and Lorraine Parrish Endowed Memorial Scholarship – 2024
Irving H. Rubin Endowed Memorial Scholarship – 2024
AWP Intro to Journals Award Nomination [USF] – December 2023, They Don’t Want Us
Keywest Literary Seminar – Teachers and Librarians Full Scholarship, 2023 (Attended ‘24)
Keywest Literary Seminar – Teachers and Librarians Full Scholarship, 2022
Hippocampus Nonfiction Conference – Writers of Color Full Scholarship, 2022
Phoenix Magazine, I’m Not Afraid of Water – CNF
2020: 1st Place Winner for Creative Nonfiction Contest
Florida College System Activities Association Publications Divison, I’m Not Afraid of Water – CNF
2020: 2nd Place Winner in Division B for CNF
Mentee for PitchWars 2020-2021 [p. Caila Coleman]