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

• Tricks for Travel

• In Case of Apocalypse, Please Eat Me

• On Perfect Parents

• Laundry, and Then We Die

“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