Awards

Scholarly

  • Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award (M.A.), First-Year Composition, University of Oklahoma
  • Three Minute Thesis Competition Second Place Winner,University of
  • Oklahoma. Presentation title: “The Power of Medical Texts in Women’s Health.”
  • Goldia D. Cooksey Memorial Fund, University of Oklahoma
  • Alphonse Josephy Fritze and Dorothy Gene Fritz Memorial Scholarship, University of Oklahoma
  • Dean’s List, Coe College
  • Fulbright Scholar English Teaching Assistant Alternate, Slovak Republic
  • Outstanding Senior in Writing, Coe College
  • Alpha Lambda Delta Maria Leonard Senior Book Award, Coe College
  • John J. Murray Memorial Award in History, Coe College
  • James and Linnie Phifer Writing Prize in History, Coe College
  • Young Essay Grand Prize Winner, Coe College

Creative

  • PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Nomination
  • Best Creative Graduate Paper, Michigan College English Association
  • Narratively x Belletrist True Romance Writing Prize Grand Prize Winner
  • Annie Dillard Prize in Nonfiction, Bellingham Review
  • New Voices Award Nonfiction Finalist, Washington Square Review
  • Curt Johnson Prose Award in Nonfiction Honorable Mention, December
  • The Best American Essays 2023 Notable, for “In the Desert”
  • Best of the Net Nomination, for “Things You Own,” nominated by Gastropoda
  • Best of the Net Nomination, for “Family Matters,” nominated by Cold Mountain Review
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination, for “Family Matters,” nominated by Cold Mountain Review
  • Literary Competition Winner, Ladies’ Literary Club of Cedar Rapids

Grants and Scholarships

  • Mary Ann Ryan Travel Award for Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Scholars
  • National Collegiate Cancer Foundation Survivor Scholarship
  • Katherine Rader Two-Year Graduate Fellowship, University of Oklahoma
  • Robberson Travel Grant, University of Oklahoma Graduate College
  • Williston Jones Full-Tuition Scholarship, Coe College