“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