honors

AWARDS

Won

The Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize – 2022

Dinaane Debut Fiction Prize – 2019

Kalemba Short Story Prize – 2019

Finalist

Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series in Fiction – 2022

Minnesota Author Project – 2022

Shortlist

Commonwealth Short Story Prize – 2022

Nobrow Short Story Prize – 2020

Bristol Short Story Prize – 2019

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

Won  

1000 Voices Program, Every Woman Treaty – 2022

Jacobson Scholar (Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice) – 2021/2022

Deborah Keenan Poetry Scholarship (Hamline University) – 2021

Writer of Color Merit Scholarship (Hamline University) – 2020 - 2023

Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellowship – 2018/2019

Young African Leaders Initiative – 2017

Semi-finalist

Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative – 2022

Shortlist  

Miles Morland Scholarship – 2022

Miles Morland Scholarship – 2021

Other Honours

Anoka County Library Featured Author – 2023

Brittle Paper’s Top 15 Debut Books of 2019

Dreamers Creative Writing Competition (Honorable Mention) – 2019