“Work is love made visible.”

—Kahlil Gibran

FICTION

The Orphan” in Meridian

Editors’ Prize in Prose

NONFICTION

Person of Heart” in Ecotone

Prairie Lights Prize for Nonfiction

Tiny Rooms” in Hunger Mountain

Finalist, Disquiet International Literary Prize

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

What I Want Are Impossible Things” in Dogwood

Dogwood Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction

I Wanted to Crave Him, Not Have Him” in the New York Times’ Modern Love column

In Another Life, I Might Not Be A Better Self” in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Imagining, for Grown-ups series (monthly column) in 3 Quarks Daily

Flying Lessons” in The Reader Berlin’s Home is Elsewhere anthology

Shortlist, the Berlin Writing Prize

The Essentials” in The Lifted Brow

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

POETRY (ish)

All the Names We Have to Have for Love” in XRAY

Lights, Puerto Princessa” & “Waiting for Mammals to Grow Old” in Alluvium, the magazine of Literary Shanghai

“The Planet is Not a Metaphor”

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