Best of the Net Nomination

"Learning to Plant Trees With My Father While My Mother's Ghost Sings" McNesse Review

Pushcart Prize Nomination 

“House of Gold,” Beloit Poetry Journal

2025 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

Finalist

2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets

3rd Place Winner

2024 Only Poems Prize

2nd Place Winner

Cave Canem Fellowship

Fellow

2023 Brown University’s Edwin Honig Memorial Award

Winner

The judge wrote: “The poems gathered here are nuanced in their lyrical dexterity and incisiveness.”

2022 Brown University’s Edwin Honig Memorial Award

Winner

The judges wrote: “What happens when sonic nuance arrives casually with torqued intellectual force? One answer is this selection of poems. Here, the possibilities of received forms find the sort of individual expression that reminds us that every instance of writing is an experiment, for good poems are not easy-made things.”

2022 Brown University’s Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award

Winner

The judge wrote: “Here we find a young, promising poet taking shape, gathering image and sound for the future.”

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

Finalist

Wisconsin Poetry Series: Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize

Semifinalist

Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence, 2023-2027

Recipient