Awards
- Winner of the Donald L Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, from CSU Press, 2025
- Writer-in-Residence Award at Monson Arts, 2024
- Writer-in-Residence Award at Kimmel Harding Nelson, 2024
- Winner of Marianne Russo Award for Novel-in-Progress from Key West Literary Seminars' Emerging Writer Award, 2022, novel excerpt
- Two Pushcart Prize Nominations, Short Story, "At the Auditorium,” and Essay, "El Coup."
- Winner of The New School Chapbook Award, novel excerpt
- Recipient of Artist Fellowship Award, CT Office of the Arts 2017
- Shortlisted for:
- William Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in Novel;
- Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction;
- The Dana Awards for the Novel;
- Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest;
- Whidbey Writers Contest in Novel;
- Petrochor Reprint Award
Interviews
Black Lawrence Press Sapling, upcoming fall 2025
Printed in published chapbook by contest judge and author, Dennis Cooper, for Melanie's winning novel excerpt in The New School Chapbook Competition