Residencies, Awards, and Honors

Distinguished Story for “Passengers,” Best American Short Stories 2019 (originally appeared in Iowa Review 48/2)

Winner, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Prize (judged by Hannah Pittard), 2019

Runner-up, Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction (judged by Joshua Ferris), Gulf Coast, 2018

Finalist, Editors' Award in Fiction, The Florida Review, 2018

Finalist, R. M. Kinder Award for Fiction, Pleiades, 2017

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Writing Fellowship, Amherst, VA, Spring 2016

Stone Court Writer-in-Residence, Stockbridge, MA, Fall 2015

My story “The Bridge” selected by Ladette Randolph for Ploughshares Spring 2016 shortlist

Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Woodstock, NY, Summer 2015

Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, Laceyville, PA, Summer 2015

Joan Johnson Award in Fiction, University of Southern Mississippi, 2014

Nominated by Edwidge Danticat for Best New American Voices 2010

James Michener Fellowship, University of Miami, 2007-2009

Finalist in Cynosure Screenwriting Contest for Tessa and the Boy, 2004

Readings

VCCA Fellows Reading, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, Spring 2016

Stone Court Writer-in-Residence Reading, Edith Wharton’s Mount, Lenox, MA, Fall 2015

Byrdcliffe Open Studios Reading, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY, July 2015

T-Bones Records Spring Reading, Hattiesburg, MS, March 2015

Amphitheatre Reading, Hattiesburg Public Library, Hattiesburg, MS, October 2014

Center for Writers Reading Series, Hattiesburg, MS, September 2013

C4W Graduate Student Reading, Hattiesburg, MS, October 2012

Festival of Language Reading (with Debra Di Blasi), AWP Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2012

Word Bombing 2, Bloomington, IL, October 2011

Word Bombing Inaugural Reading, Bloomington, IL, October 2010

MFA Graduate Reading, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, May 2009

James Michener Fellowship Reading, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, October 2007