Fiction

Publications

Rain, novel excerpt

Chicago Quarterly Review

December 2020 Vol. 32

Yes, she says, this is a complex story and it has more than one moral. Sometimes there can be as many morals in a story as the number of listeners, understood?

The Last Place, speculative fiction

UEA Creative Writing Anthology: Prose 2016

She lies in a coma now. I said goodbye but I will not go until I get the news. I am of the old world and believe that children shouldn’t die before their parents.

Awards, honors and conferences

  • Vermont Studio Center, 2023 — Fiction resident
  • Southampton Writers Conference 2022 — Participant in fiction
  • Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2022 — Special Mention
  • Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2021 — Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction
  • Community of Writers, Summer Fiction Workshops 2021 — The O’Dwyer Scholarship recipient
  • A Public Space Writing Fellowship 2021 — Longlisted
  • Mslexia Novel Competition 2020 — Finalist
  • Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 — Longlisted
  • Iowa Review Short Story Awards 2018 — Finalist
  • Creative Writing Global Fellowship (for travel to Italy), Boston University, 2017 — Recipient
  • Creative Writing, Boston University, Fall 2016 — Graduate Teaching Fellow
  • Curtis Brown Literary Agency Prize 2016 for novel excerpt — Shortlisted