Finalist for New England Review's Emerging Writer Award, 2024
Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022 and 2024
“A Pretty Word for Goodbye,” honorable mention in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition—The Tilia Klebenov Jacobs Religious Essay Prize, 2015
“Sparknoting Lolita in Indiana,” entry of note in Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative’s Annual Personal Essay Contest, 2007
“Catholic Club,” third place in The Conference on Christianity and Literature’s Student Writing Contest, 2006