Meridian Editors’ Prize in Prose

Dogwood Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction

Finalist, The Kenyon Review’s Developmental Editing Fellowship

Finalist, Disquiet International Literary Prize

Prairie Lights Prize for Nonfiction

Finalist, The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Nonfiction

Runner-Up, The Lifted Brow’s Prize for Experimental Nonfiction

Finalist & Commissioned Poem, Spoken Word for the World, in conjunction with the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris

Third Prize, Elie Wiesel Essay Prize in Ethics

Yale Journalism Scholar