Awards & Publications
Awards
2025 | Finalist for Terrain’s Sowell Emerging Writer’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize
2025 | Midway Journal Flash Prose Contest Honorable Mention Winner
2025 | Finalist for Mad Creek Books Essay Collection Contest
2025 | Semi-Finalist for Black Lawrence Books Prize for Prose
2024 | Shortlist finalist for Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
2022 | Winner of the Geselle Award for Creative Nonfiction
2021 | First ever recipient of the Robert Anderson Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction
2021 | Recipient of the O’Rourke Travel Grant
2020 | Guest Judge for Inkstone Literary Magazine Annual Creative Writing Contest - University of Northwestern-St. Paul
2020 | Pushcart Prize Nomination by Riverteeth Journal
2019 | Pushcart Prize Nomination by Rock and Sling Journal
2017 | Winner of the Norton Writer’s Prize
Publications
“Mushroom Hunting: A Villanelle for the End of the World,”Midway Journal
“The Deer Stand: A Prose Pantoum,”Ninth Letter
“Off-Center Trenta Sei,” The Palisades Review, June 2023
“Long Time Gone,” included in Allegory Ridge Nonfiction Anthology, November 2023
“Obituary (For My Cousin),” The Normal School
“I Ask Medusa,” Cutbank Literary Journal, Weekly Flash Feature, June, 2021
“Beauty and the Bees,” Riverteeth Journal, Issue 22.1, October 2020 | Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Called Shot: A Prose Sestina,” Craft Journal, January 2021.
“Downstream,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, Spring 2019.
“Aletheia,” Rock and Sling Journal, Issue 13.2, Winter 2018. | Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Before Daybreak,” W.W. Norton, 2017 | Winner of the Norton Writer’s Prize
Reviews
“A Flash in the Dark: A Review of Aimee Nezhukumatatit’s World of Wonders,” Great River Review, Issue 67, May 2020.
Books for Students
Groundbreaking Women in Politics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Lake Elmo, MN: Focus Readers, 2020
Dealing with Addiction: Smartphone Addiction. Brightpoint Press, 2022
Focus on Current Events: Protests, Focus Readers, 2023
Holidays and Festivals: Christmas, Abdo Group, 2023
Mining and the Environment, Abdo Group, 2023
Myths and Legends: Bigfoot, Brightpoint Press, 2023
Myths and Legends: Zombies, Brightpoint Press, 2023
Tsukuyomi (Japanese Mythology), Abdo Group, 2024
Kitsune (Japanese Mythology), Abdo Group, 2024
Flood Response Teams (Extreme Weather Jobs), Apex, 2024
Survivor Supporters (Extreme Weather Jobs), Apex, 2024
Influential Women in the Military, Wonder Books, 2024
Influential Women in Engineering, Wonder Books, 2024
The Bronze Age, Abdo Group, 2024
The Paleo-Indian Period, Abdo Group, 2024
Yellowstone National Park, Abdo Group, 2025
Yosemite National Park, Abdo Group, 2025
Great Smokey Mountain National Park, Abdo Group, 2025
Weird Moments in History, Core Library, 2025
Weird Inventions, Core Library, 2025
Weird Animals, Core Library, 2025