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Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Writer-in-Residence, December 2026 
 

Annie Dillard Award Finalist

Bellingham Review

“Runaway”

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Lighthouse Lit Fest Advanced Workshop

with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

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LAARK Award. Distinguished Finalist

"Narwhal" 

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Writing by  Writers Advanced Workshop

with Toni Jensen

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The Letter Review Prize

Nonfiction Shortlist

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Lighthouse Lit Fest Advanced Workshop 

with Leslie Jamison
 

Emerging Writers Nonfiction Fellowship Runner Up

selected by Leslie Jamison
"Coyote"

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America's Next Great Author Finalist

selected by Kwame Alexander, Arielle Eckstut, & David Henry Sterry​

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Honeybee Literature Prize Nonfiction Runner Up

The Good Life Review
“Coyote”

 

Omniverse 

 “At the Screen Door”

"7 Tankas"

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Dunes Review 

 “The House”

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Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, Semifinalist 
Poetry Center San Jose
"The House" 

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The Joe Brainard Creative Writing Fellowship

San Francisco State University

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​Calaveras Station 

“Sticky Rice to Seaweed”
"About your Feet"

 

Susurrus
“Waiting for the Thaw”

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American River Review

 “Borders”

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