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Selected Honors and Awards

 

— 2025 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. Finalist for Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum, 2024).

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— The Best American Poetry 2025. Guest Editor Terence Winch. Featuring “Triple Sonnet for Nomi Malone,” originally published in The American Poetry Review. Scribner. September 2nd, 2025.

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—2023, The Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize. Finalist for Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions 2019). Judged by Pamela Ushuk, T.R. Hummer, and Octavio Quintanilla.

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—2022, The Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Finalist for BABE (Diode Editions, 2021). The New England Poetry Club. 

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—2020 and 2014 Finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargeant Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation

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—2019 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman

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2020 Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Book Award for cover art for Revenge of the Asian Woman 

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—2019 Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University

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Watch the Freund Prize reading here

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