
Selected Honors and Awards
— 2025 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. Finalist for Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum, 2024).
— 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.
—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.
—2022, The Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Finalist for BABE (Diode Editions, 2021). The New England Poetry Club.
—2020 and 2014 Finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargeant Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation
—2019 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman
—2020 Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Book Award for cover art for Revenge of the Asian Woman
—2019 Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University
Watch the Freund Prize reading here.