Creative Works
“Funeralesque” — ANMYL, Spring 2025
“Queen of Hearts, Queen of Swords” — Southeast Review, Spring 2025
“Swimming in the Flood” — Swamp Pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Spring 2025
“The Old Man and the Wart” — Cream City Review, Spring 2025
“The Origin of Story” — December Magazine, Vol. 35.2, Fall 2024
“My Brother William” — Iowa Review, Vol. 51.2, Spring 2022
“The Past” — Missouri Review, Vol. 44.2, Summer 2021
“In Between” — Citron Review, September 2020
Scholarship
“Toxic Spring: The Capriciousness of Cost-Benefit Analysis under FIFRA’s Pesticide Registration Process and Its Effect on Farmworkers” — California Law Review, Vol. 103, Summer 2015
Interviews
Interview with Lit Pub’s Moonlighting, December 2023
Awards & Nominations
“The Origin of Story” — nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2024
“My Brother William” — selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2023
“The Past” — nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers in 2021
“In Between” — nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2020
Winner of the Eisner Prize in Prose at UC Berkeley in 2010 for a portfolio of short fiction
Conferences & Fellowships
- Attendee at 2024 Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab
- Fellow at the Writers Grotto’s 2024 Rooted & Written Conference
- Finalist for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship
- Longlisted for Adroit Journal’s 2024 Anthony Veasna So Scholarship
- Fellow at the Ruby in San Francisco from 2022-2023
- Contributor at 2022 Sewanee Writers’ Conference
- Attendee at 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop
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