Grub Street Memoir Incubator, 2026-2027 (1 of 8 writers, scholarship recipient)

Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Playing the Telephone Game,” Sugarhouse Review

Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Good Girl Montage,” Passages North

Pushcart Prize Nomination, “First Interview with My [C]orean Father,” Runes Review

Florida Book Awards Poetry

Poet-in-Residence Fellowship, University of Arizona’s Poetry Center

Djerassi Residents Artist Program

PEN Open Book Award Nomination

Asian American Literary Awards Nomination

National Poetry Series Finalist

Utah Writers’ Contest Winner (judged by Brenda Shaughnessy), Western Humanities Review

Kundiman Alumni Giving Circle Grant for Asian American Writers

Disquiet Literary Contest Scholarship

Snowcroft Nonfiction Prize, “Echolalia: The Photographs Are My Proof” (judged by Susan Steinberg)

AWP Intro Journals Project, Nonfiction Nomination for “Echolalia: The Photographs are My Proof”

Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute Scholarship

Three-time Tuition Scholarship Recipient, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

Pleaides Press Editors’ Prize for Poetry finalist

Hambidge Residency Artist Program

Anhinga Prize for Poetry Finalist

Brittingham and Pollak Prize Finalist

Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize Shortlist (final judge: Claudia Rankine)

Sonora Review Essay Contest Finalist (final judge: Jenny Boully)

Kundiman/Alice James Books Poetry Prize Finalist

Creative Nonfiction, “Exploring the Boundaries” issue, finalist

Book Arts Residency, Book Arts Program, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Joyce A. Tournquist Doctoral Research Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah

Word Works Washington Prize Finalist

Colorado Prize for Poetry Finalist

Kundiman Retreat for Emerging Asian American Poets Merit Scholarship

Fermentation residency with author and food fermentation teacher, Sandor Katz

Richard Lemon Tuition Scholarship, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference

Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize Winner, Passages North

Guy Lemmon Award for Public Writing and Involvement, Indiana University

Clarence Snow Travel & Professional Development Scholarship, University of Utah

eXXpedition. multidisciplinary crew of 14 women sailing from João Pessoa, Brazil to Barbados

to conduct citizen science about ocean microplastics and crew (canceled due to pandemic)

SIYLI Institute for mindfulness, Berkeley, CA, Scholarship recipient