- Her short story “Bare Bones” won the 2020 Calvino Prize, judged by Joyce Carol Oates
- Her memoir manuscript, Dreaming in Japanese, was nominated by faculty and then short-listed for the 2023 Allegra Johnson Award at UCLA EXtension
- Her story collection Cabinet of Curiosity was shortlisted in the 2021 Dzanc Books SHORT STORY COLLECTION PRIZE and a finalist for the 2021 Nilsen Prize
- Her novel Excerpt The King’s Painter was long-listed for the The Masters Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest
- Her book manuscript Travels Through Paintings was a semifinalist for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize judged by Kazim Ali
- Her essay “The Best Picture in the World: On the Piero della Francesca Trail” went to the final judges on the nonfiction shortlist, and “Birdwatching in Oil Paintings” made it to the long-list of the 2022 Disquiet Literary Contest. Judges said this:
- Stories and essays have appeared in Lithub, Aeon Magazine, The Millions, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Kyoto Journal, River Teeth/Beautiful Things, Hedgehog Review, Entropy, Dillydoun Review, the Rumpus, etc.
- Her short story “Bare Bones” won the 2020 Calvino Prize, judged by Joyce Carol Oates
- 2023: Bread Loaf Contributor’s Award (Fiction Workshop with Jess Row) & a place at the Sewanee Writer’s Workshop (Fiction with Vanessa Hua)
- 2024 Residency Awards at the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos
- Original poetry has appeared in La Piccioletta Barca, the Dewdrop, and Ekphrastic Journal. Her translations of poetry from the Japanese have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and one was included in a 2024 moon launch, as part of the Lunar Codex Mission to the South Pole of the moon. 2025 Bread Loaf and Sewanee in poetry
Writing Awards:
- Her short story “Bare Bones” won the 2020 Calvino Prize, judged by Joyce Carol Oates
- Her memoir manuscript, Dreaming in Japanese, was nominated by faculty and then short-listed for the 2023 Allegra Johnson Award at UCLA EXtension
- Her story collection Cabinet of Curiosity was shortlisted in the 2021 Dzanc Books SHORT STORY COLLECTION PRIZE and a finalist for the 2021 Nilsen Prize
- Her novel Excerpt The King’s Painter was long-listed for the The Masters Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest
- Her book manuscript Travels Through Paintings was a semifinalist for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize judged by Kazim Ali
- Her essay “The Best Picture in the World: On the Piero della Francesca Trail” went to the final judges on the nonfiction shortlist, and “Birdwatching in Oil Paintings” made it to the long-list of the 2022 Disquiet Literary Contest. Judges said this: