Awards
- Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship 2024
- 2022 Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Fiction Finalist
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship 2022
- Louise VanSickle Creative Writing Fund 2022
- UNL English Department Joy Currie Travel Grants 2021
- UNL GTAP Graduate Travel awards 2021
- Black Warrior Review Contest Finalist 2021
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vreeland Award for Fiction 2020-2021
- Mcphee Summer Fellowship 2020
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Othmer Fellowship 2019 – 2021
- Nommo Awards 2020 Short Story Longlist
- Pushcart Prize 2019
Memories of Three Rivers: University of Nevada Las Vegas Outstanding Thesis (Non-STEM) 2018/2019
- University of Nevada Las Vegas English department nominee for the 2018 UNLV Outstanding Thesis Award
- Black Mountain Institute International Travel Fellowship
- UNLV International Programs Fellowship
- UNLV Graduate Professional Students Association Research Funds Award
- UNLV English Department Travel Funding
- Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship finalist (2018)
- Caine Prize for African Writing finalist (2018)
- First Prize, Social Science Podium Session at University of Nevada Las Vegas, (Spring 2018)
