Honors she has received for her poetry include International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review, First Place in the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Contest, and nomination for Best of the Net. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards – Early Years Anthology, Punchnel’s, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, TAYO Literary Magazine, Sugared Water, and elsewhere. She received her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an MFA candidate at New York University, where she serves as a Starworks Fellow and Co-Award Editor for the Washington Square Review.