Honors & Work

Selected Workshops

• Kelly Writers House Summer Workshop for Young Writers at the University of Pennsylvania, Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2024

• Memory & the Surreal: A One-Day Discussion & Writing Workshop with Mathias Svalina, Summer 2024

• Adroit Summer Mentorship Program for Poetry under Asa Drake, Summer 2023

• Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, Creative Writing with Nat Mesnard, Summer 2023

• Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, Securely Writing Insecurities: The Power of Doubt with Chukwuma Ndulue, Summer 2023

• Iowa Young Writers Studio, Wild Things: Object Oriented Poetics with Gilad Jaffe, Summer 2022 

Teaching

• Incandescent Studio, Summer Workshop Mentor,  May 2024 –– August 2024

• Empty Inkwell Review, Online Creative Writing Workshop Instructor,  December 2023 –– Present

Editorial Work

• Fifth Wheel Press, Reader, January 2025 –– Ongoing

• Hominum Journal, Poetry Editor, August 2023 –– August 2024

• Counterclock Journal, Poetry Reader, December 2022 – January 2024

• The Interlochen Review, Interviews Editor, January 2023 –– May 2024

• The Red Wheelbarrow, Editor, January – February 2024

• Taco Bell Quarterly, Volunteer Reader, June 2022  – July 2023

• The Interlochen Review, Shadow to the Editors in Chief,  January –– May 2023 

• Counterclock Journal, Intern, September – December 2022

• The Red Wheelbarrow, Editorial Intern, September – October 2022 

Interviews

• "Literature Is A Dream," with Ilya Kaminsky, The Interlochen Review, 2024

• "Narration is Created," with Anne-Marie Oomen, The Interlochen Review, 2024

• "Imagining A Soundtrack for America," with Adrian Matejka, The Interlochen Review, 2023

• "Having A Body is Horrifying," with Carmen Maria Machado, The Interlochen Review, 2023

• "A Conversation With Gaia Rajan," with Gaia Rajan, COUNTERCLOCK Journal, October 2022

Honors

• "Meet A Poet" with the American Center in Moscow, 2025

• Best Of The Net Nomination for "Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022," 2025

• Scholastic National Art & Writing Awards, Gold Medal in Poetry, 2024; Gold & Silver Medals in Poetry, 2023

• YoungArts Winner, Spoken Word, 2024; Spoken Word, 2023; Playwriting, 2023

• DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, Winner, 2022, 2023, & 2024

• Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest, Second Place, 2025

• Princeton University 10-Minute Play Contest, Honorable Mention, 2024

• Fitzgerald Literary Contest, Grade 11 – 12, Honorable Mention, 2024

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Seven Regional Recognitions, One Gold Key, 2024

• Albion College Charles Crupi Memorial Contest, Finalist, 2024

• Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 2024

• Neologism Poetry Journal, Featured Poet, June 2023

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, American Voices Nomination, 2023 & 2025

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Twenty Two Regional Recognitions, Thirteen Gold Keys, 2023

• Interlochen Arts Academy Collage, Performer, 2023

• La Ninfa Eco Young Writers' Contest, Winner, 2022

• Art in Your Inbox, Featured Writer, December 2022

• Interlochen Arts Academy Service of Sleep, Featured Performer, 2022

• Interlochen Arts Academy Collage, Finalist, 2022

• Haley Naughton Memorial Scholarship to Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Winner, 2022

• The Gods Play Here: An Interlochen Arts Academy Playwriting Festival, Featured Writer and Director, 2022

• Downbeat 720, Featured Performer, 2022

• Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest, Finalist, 2022

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Six Regional Recognitions, One Gold Key 2022