2024

In consideration
Intima’s “The Best American Essays Collection”
Beholding Something Fine

2023

Nominated
Pushcart Prize
Beholding Something Fine

2022

** Winner **
Sweet: A Literary Confection’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Flash Essay contest
Brown Barrette in My Hair

“Brown Barrette in My Hair” is a wonderful memory piece, where the prose is filled with sensory details that evoke our own summers at the pool, evokes those moments of being and living and seeing and feeling. As the person we once were. That young person. That person who remembers how water drenches the skin and that summer haze of sunny days. Nostalgic, yes, but it is more than that. This essay recreates an intimate slice of a world so readers, too, can plunge right in, and when we surface the light is blinding.

-Ira Sukrungruang, Founding Editor

2018

Honorable Mention
Bellevue Literary Review’s Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction
Drawing Blood