I am the grateful recipient of a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Read the full announcement here.

Other awards, residencies, scholarships, juries, and service include:

2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop Participant

B. Frank Vogel Scholar in Nonfiction, 2018 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Residency and Merit-Based Grant, Nonfiction, Vermont Studio Center, October 2017 and January 2019 (and February 2023, unable to attend)

Finalist, 2017 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Prose, The Cincinnati Review

Finalist, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 Workspace Residency Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)

Research Residency, Wertheim Study, New York Public Library, 2017; 2012; 2011; 2010

Judge, 2016 Gibson Peacock Prize for Creative Nonfiction, University of Pennsylvania

Judge, 2016 Bechtel Prize, presented by Teachers & Writers Collaborative Magazine

Finalist, 2012 Deadline Club Award in Social Media, “Watching and Tweeting Andy Warhol’s ‘Empire,’ Society of Professional Journalists

Volunteer, PEN Prison Writing Mentor, 2012-2014

Runner-up, 2012 Magazine Contest, Georgetown Review

Honorable mention, 2010 Writing Contest, The Atlantic