Awards. Projects. Press.

    • MFAW Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago judged by Daniel Borzutzky. Intertwined, Therefore. 2025.

    • 1st Place Best Column at the ICPA Awards. Slut Saga. 2024.

    • 1st Place Best Column at the ICPA Awards. Slut Saga. 2023.

    • Finalist on the reality TV show “America’s Next Great Author.” 2022.

    • Finalist for the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program. A Misremembrance. 2021.

    • Outstanding Poetry EVVY Award Nomination. Life after Death. 2021.

    • Outstanding Prose EVVY Award Nomination. A Hold on the Wheel. 2021.

    • Playwright debut with Intertwined, Therefore. IMPACT Theater and Performance Festival. Chicago, 2025.

    • “Pamhplet Show II” at the art space Patient Info. Un-Veiled (zine illustrated by Ciarra Giron). Chicago, 2025.

    • Speaker at the 34th International Publishers Congress; spoke on the topic of BookTok and Gen Z consumer habits shaping the future of publishing. Guadalajara, 2024.

    • Founder and lead organizer of the Words Under Siege Conference; a conference meant to analyze the dangers of censorship. Partnerships with PEN America, the Chicago Public Library, DePaul University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2024.

    • Speaker at the 2024 Bread Loaf Oxford Academic Conference; spoke on the topic of the moral implications of remembering Dutch Slavery through aesthetics and art. Oxford, 2024.

    • “ouRArt” exhibit at the Siragusa Gallery. Masculinity Undressed (35 mm black and white photography). Chicago, 2024.

    • Screenwriter for Season One of the Emerson Channel TV show “Culture Shock.”Episode One and Episode Two. Boston, 2021.

    • Auditor at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Placed in Alexander Chee’s workshop. Middlebury, 2019.

    • Radio Presenter on the show “Eclectic Ladyland.” KRBD Ketchikan, 2018. WECB Boston, 2019.

    • “Capturing IMPACT” by Sivan Gilbert. F NewsMagazine, 2025. (Read)

    • “Meet the Graduating Class” by Megan Kirby and illustrations by Grace Kim. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Magazine, 2025. (Read)

    • “Turning the Page on Censorship” by d.l. Adams. F NewsMagazine, 2025. (Read)

    • “Former HumanitiesX Student Fellow Defends Honest Book Criticism” by Taylor Sellers-Varela. Medium.com, 2025. (Read)

    • “Class of 2023 Snapshot: School of the Arts and Marlboro Institute” by David Ertischeck. Emerson Today, 2023. (Read)

    • “Emersonians Make Pitch to Be ‘America’s Next Great Author’” by Erin Clossey. Emerson Today, 2022. (Read)

    • “Día de Los Muertos Is A Time to Reconnect With Family and Culture For Mexicans Across the World” by Eliana Flores-Barber. Teen Vogue, 2022. (Read)

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