F e l l o w s h i p s 
R e s i d e n c i e s
H o n o r s 


2026 Residency Partial Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center

Participant Scholarship in Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

2025 Book Prize Finalis
Center for African American Poetry & Poetics

Poetry Scholar: Queer Week
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop

2025 First Year Fellow
Cave Canem Foundation

2025 Emerging Voices Fellow (declined)
Virtual Lambda Literary Retreat

Nomination for “When I Was a Boxer” in The Cincinnati Review

Best New Poets Anthology


2025 Poetry Particpiant (declined)
Tin House Summer Workshop

2025 Poetry Fellowship Finalist
Just Buffalo Poetry Fellowship


“When I Was a Boxer” in The Cincinnati Review  
Selected for CLMP Black History Reading List


2024 Civil Society Fellowship & Writing Residency
Vermont Studio Center


2024 Writing Workshop Fellowship (declined)
The Watering Hole Retreat

Nomination for “After My Bipolar Diagnosis I Make Several Phone Calls & Everyone Says That Makes Sense” in Torch Literary Arts

Pushcart Prize  

2021 Fellowship Award
Fulbright Summer Institute, University of Bristol: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice

2019-2023 Janet Weis Creative Writing Scholarship
Susquehanna University



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