Awards and Fellowships
2022: deGroot Foundation Courage to Write Award
Fellowship, Hewnoaks Residency
2021: Maine Arts Commission’s Fellowship
2020: Hopwood Graduate Award for Drama
Meader Family Award for Poetry
Fellowship, Norton Island Residency
Finalist, Hopwood Graduate Award for Poetry
Finalist, Hopwood Graduate Award for Screenplay writing
Finalist, Disquiet International Literary Prize (non-fiction)
Finalist, Disquiet International Literary Prize (fiction)
Artist-in-Residence, Arab American National Museum
2019: James Beard Nomination for best food podcast
Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction Prize
The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction
The John Wagner Prize for Nonfiction
2018: Rackham Merit Fellowship, Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan
2017: Inaugural Recipient, Katherine Bakeless Scholarship in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Fellowship in fiction writing, Kundiman
Nominated for best food podcast by the International Association of Culinary Professionals
Nominated for best food podcast by Saveur magazine
Selected as a AiR New Voices Scholar
2016: Fellowship, Attic Institute Emerging Writers Teaching Program
Scholarship Recipient for VONA Workshop
Scholarship Recipient for Napa Valley Writers’ Conference fiction workshop
Fellowship, Wilapa Bay for the Arts in Oysterville Artist Residency, Washington
Elected to the Fellows Executive Committee, The MacDowell Colony
2015: Fellowship, The Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes Artist Residency, California
Fellowship, Djerassi Residency for the Arts in Woodside, California
2014: Fellowship, Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony for Nonfiction writing
Scholarship Recipient for VONA Workshop
Inaugural recipient, Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship for long-form journalism, The MacDowell Colony
2013: Fellowship, The Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes Artist Residency, California
Scholarship Recipient for Napa Valley Writers’ Conference fiction workshop
Granted admission to the University of Iowa MFA Nonfiction writing program (declined)
Finalist, Tin House Scholarship (non-fiction)
2012: Fellowship, San Francisco Writers’ Grotto
Scholarship Recipient for VONA Workshop
Scholarship Recipient for Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony
2009: UN Community Association Award for Commitment to Human Rights presented by Amnesty International