Fellowships & Conference Participation
- Squaw Valley Community of Writers Long Scholarship; July 2014, July 2017
- Tin House Writer’s Workshop with Marlon James; July 2015
- Finalist, Ian MacMillan Writing Award finalist, Hawaii Review, for short story “The Pig Kill;” 2014
- Fulbright scholarship awarded in creative writing, May 2012. Lived in Budapest, Hungary. Affiliation with Eotvos Lorand University.
- 2012 Fulbright publication, “Imaginary Homelands”: Excavating Memory, Collective and Private, in Post-Communist Hungary – A Narrative Approach”
- Fellowship awarded to Virginia Center for Creative Arts; 2010
- Fellowship awarded to Summer Literary Seminars; 2010
- Fellowship awarded to the Vermont Studio Center for fiction writing; 2006
- Honorary Fellow and Prize Winner for the Abroad Writers Conference in Provence, France; 2006
- Fort Bend Writers Guild Winner, Second Place, “The Mosquito Bite;” 2006
Literary Organizations & Coursework:
- Authors Guild Member, 2016-2018
- PEN Center Member, 2014-2018
- Writers Workshop LA member & coursework with Ivy Pochoda, 2014, 2017
- UCLA Writers Extension Advanced Novel Writing with Les Plesko 2012-13
- LitFest Pasadena Committee Member, 2014-16
- Red Hen Press volunteer, summer 2011
- Hungarian Foreign Press Association
- Budapest Literary Bardroom member