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Award and Features

Awards

  • Honorable Mention – 2024 A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest, hosted by Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
  • 1st Prize – 2023 Business Council for the Arts: On My Own Time Literary Art Competition, Open Poetry: professional division
  • 3rd Prize – 2023 Business Council for the Arts: On My Own Time Literary Art Competition, Creative Non-fiction: professional division
  • Honorable Mention – 2022 Penrose Poetry Prize
  • 1st Prize – 2022 Business Council for the Arts: On My Own Time Literary Art Competition, Open Poetry: professional division
  • 1st Prize – 2019 Business Council for the Arts: On My Own Time Literary Art Competition, Open Poetry 
  • 3rd Prize – 2018 Business Council for the Arts: On My Own Time Literary Art Competition, Open Poetry
  • Honorable Mention – 2010 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Poetry Contest
  • Winner – 2009 National Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching Haiku Contest: English haiku division

Readings

  • Yellow CommemorASIAN: a Sacred Space to Celebrate Asian Voices (May 25, 2025)
  • Dirty Moonlight: The Wild Detectives Eleventh Anniversary (April 20, 2025)
  • Gay-scape from L.A. virtual reading, presented by beestung and just femme & dandy (March 25, 2025)
  • A Poetry Jam celebrating the release of Love, Liberation, and Other Longings at Bramblitt’s Yellow Dog Art Bar & Gallery (July 13, 2024)
  • Inner Moonlight Sixth Anniversary at The Wild Detectives (April 10, 2024)
  • The Writer’s Garret presents: Inner Moonlight at The Wild Detectives (October 11, 2023)
  • “Notes for November 8, 2022” – Field Team 6: Register Democrats, Save the World podcast (October 28, 2022 episode)
  • Phynnecabulary: Halloween special, online (October 27, 2022)
  • “Stinky Tofu” – Poetry Bread Presents with Sam Castello, KURU Silver City 89.1 FM (September 12, 2022)
  • Cobalt Poets, online (September 6, 2022)
  • Movements Art Collective: #MenstruationMatters (December 14, 2018)
  • “Four Letter Words” – Movements Art Collective: #Censored (August 18, 2018)