Best of the net 2026
Winner, “Searching for Queer Joy in Tennessee,” selected by Cyrus Cassells, Sundress Publications
Best of the net 2026
Nomination, “Searching for Queer Joy in Tennessee,” Garden Party Collective
Sundress publications, trans/nonbinary writing retreat
Full Fellowship, 2025
awp intro journal awards winner
for the poem “Thoughts & Prayers,” forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, 2025
the garden party collective, neurodivergent / intersectional writers contest
for the poem “Searching for Queer Joy in Tennessee,” 2025
john c. hodges fellowship
Full Fellowship, 2023-2025
john b. emperor fellowship
Full Fellowship, 2023-2025
McNair Scholar
2022-2024
Danielle Lelene Barnes Endowed Scholarship
2022-2023
Samuel Henry and Elizabeth P. Mitchell Foundation Scholarship
Modern Languages, 2022-2023
Research and creative scholarly activities grant
“Queer Joy Through the Art of Found Family,” Full Research Fellowship, 2022-2023
Danielle Lelene Barnes Endowed Scholarship
2021-2022
dreamyard rad(ical) poetry consortium
Fellowship, 2021
common threads workshop intensive
Longleaf Review, 2021
women’s research and bgltq+ student center research fellowship
2020-2023
Research and creative scholarly activities grant
“Challenging the Objectification and Ostracism of Sexually Liberal Queer Women Through the Four Waves of Feminism,” Full Research Fellowship, 2020-2021
dreamyard rad(ical) poetry consortium
Fellowship, 2020
Research and creative scholarly activities grant
“Intersections Between Queerness and Religion in the Midwest: Christianity as Hyper-Marginalization for LGBTQ+ Community,” Full Research Fellowship, 2019-2020
reshaping conventions: race, gender, and identity explored through black representation award and scholarship
for the poem “Between Brown and Carmine,” 2nd Place, Poetry Contest, Melton Art Gallery, 2020
Merrick Sloane 