She has been a resident at Yaddo and the Saltonstall Arts Colony as well as a recipient of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the Fine Arts Works Center. Most recently, she was selected to participate in Callaloo’s summer fiction workshop at Brown University, where she was one of two fiction writers selected to read during the closing ceremony. Her stories, poems, and creative nonfiction have been nominated for the Pushcart. She has work forthcoming The Encyclopedia Project, Vol. L-Z. And her chapbook, SKIN, was a 2013 Goldline Press Fiction Chapbook finalist and is the winner of the 2013-14 Creative Justice Press Winter Fiction Chapbook Competition.