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RECOGNITIONS
2024 First Place in Creative Writing for Shoreline Arts Alliance: Scholarships in the Arts
2022 Semi-Finalist for the National Student Poetry Program
AWARDS
SCHOLASTIC ART AND WRITING AWARDS
2023
Silver Key – Poetry, “After The Seventh Voicemail, The Answering Machine Explodes”
Silver Key – Poetry, “Transitioning In the Milkweeds”
Honorable Mention – Poetry, “The What-If Game”
Honorable Mention – Poetry, “Trellis (Rebirth)”
2022
National Silver Medal — Poetry, “Dress Shoes”
Gold Key – Poetry, “Dress Shoes”
Silver Key – Poetry, “Frogkisser”
Honorable Mention – Poetry, “A Short History of Being Half Alive”
Honorable Mention – Poetry, “Secondhand Apologies”
Honorable Mention – Poetry, “What if Memory Came Back (Before Noon or Midnight)”
2021
Gold Key – Dramatic Script, “Joel’s Funeral”
Silver Key – Poetry, “The Ghost”
SHORELINE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT (SHED) WRITING CONTEST
2024 First Place in Poetry (Grades 11/12) – “Dress Shoes”
2023 First Place in Poetry (Grades 11/12) – “Transitioning In The Milkweeds”
2022 First Place in Poetry – “Secondhand Apologies”
PUBLICATIONS
Publication in Trans Art Magazine: Rebirth by Bitter Pill Press 2023 – Poetry, “Transitioning In The Milkweeds”
Publication in Teen Ink June/July 2022 (Volume 36, Issue 6) Special Pride Feature – Poetry, “Frogkisser”
Publication + Runner Up in Poetry for The Apprentice Writer: 40th Anniversary (2022) – Poetry, “After The Seventh Voicemail, The Answering Machine Explodes”
Publication in Feminist Writes Zine; Issue #3: Riot (2022) – Poetry, “After The Seventh Voicemail, The Answering Machine Explodes”