HONORS
2023 |
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- Selected, Best of the Net Anthology for poem "Lotus Flower Kingdom" in The Adroit Journal — February 2023
2022 |
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- Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology for poem "Lotus Flower Kingdom" in The Adroit Journal — September 2022
- Finalist, Breakbread Literary Project Villena-Aldama Poetry Contest — June 2022
- Winner, Kenyon College Academy of American Poets Prize — April 2022
- Winner, Kenyon College Alpha Delta Phi Literature Competition — January 2022
- Longlisted, Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize — January 2022
2021 |
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- Winner, Adroit Prize for Poetry for poem "Lotus Flower Kingdom" selected by Carl Phillips — October 2021
- Winner, $60,000 Kenyon College S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing (Scholarship) — September 2021
- Nominee, Best of the Net for poem "Rafflesia" in The Lumiere Review — August 2021
- Finalist, Frontier Poetry New Voices Contest for poem "Nocturne for Our Lady of Flowers" — June 2021
- Finalist, Lumiere Review Writing Contest for poem "Rafflesia" — March 2021
2020 |
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- Runner-up, Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest for poem "Year of the Horse (2002)" selected by Eduardo C. Corral — December 2020
- Nominee, Pushcart Prize for poem "Church of the Greenland Shark" in Storm Cellar — December 2020
- Nominee, Pushcart Prize for poem "No Myth" in Ruminate Magazine — November 2020
- Winner, Hominum Journal Young Writers Contest for poem "Ylem Theory" — September 2020
- Runner-up, Adroit Prize for Poetry for poem "Cha" selected by Jericho Brown — August 2020
- Nominee, Best New Poets for poem "Immigrant Daughter's Postcard to Hong Kong" in Diode Poetry Journal — April 2020
- Gold Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for poem "The Way to a Chinese Daughter's Heart" — March 2020
- Semifinalist, Adroit Journal Djanikian Scholarship — January 2020
2019 |
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- Winner, Selcouth Station, Environmental Chapbook Competition for chapbook "Cartography of Coming Home" — September 2019
- Shortlisted, Sine Theta Summer Writing Competition for poem "What the Rabbits Saw" selected by Nancy Huang — August 2019
- Runner-up, The Kenyon Review, Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for poem "Post Meridiem" selected by Richie Hofmann — April 2019
- Recipient, Anthony Quinn Foundation, Scholarship for Literary Arts — March 2019
- Silver Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for poem "Love, Hong Kong" — March 2019
- Short-listed, Poetry Society of the UK, Tree Challenge for poem "Dermatology for Trees" — February 2019
- Honorable Mention, Hollins University, Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest — February 2019
2018 |
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- Teen Winner, L'Éphémère Review Writing Awards for poem "Maine Dream" selected by Topaz Winters — July 2018
- Semifinalist, Adroit Prize for Poetry for poem "Diphylleia Grayi" — July 2018
- Nominee, Best New Poets for poem "Pythia" in The Penn Review — April 2018
- Third place, League of Canadian Poets, Jessamy Stursberg Prize for poem "Burial" — March 2018
- Gold Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for poem "Confessional" — March 2018
- Gold Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for flash fiction "Death Buys a Coffee" — March 2018
