HONORS.
poetry
2023
- Mayor's Poetry Program (Boston) - Honorable Mention: "Irruption"
- Plume Poetry, 5 Under 35 Feature - "Contact Point" & "Fever Dream"
- The Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for First-Year Students, Hamilton College - Winner
- The Adroit Prize for Poetry - Semifinalist: "Glass Castle"
- Claudia Ann Seaman Award - Winner: Poetry, "Naturalization Test"
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards - Top Portfolio Award & Gold Key, Senior Writing Portfolio
- Roanoke Review High School Fiction and Poetry Contest - Honorable Mention, "Rotten Aubade"
- National YoungArts Foundation - Merit: Poetry
- Glass Poetry Press Chapbook Series - Finalist: Lone (chapbook)
- The Roadrunner Review High School Writing Competition - Honorable Mention: "Lazy River"
- Best of Net Nominee - "We Were Magic Once" in perhappened
- Best of Net Nominee - "Premonition with Extras" in The Shore
- 10 Years of Young Poets Network: The Challenge - Commended: "Sharon, Massachusetts" | x
- Young Poets Network August #1 Challenge: Conversation Poems - Commended: "Somewhere, I Know What It Is Like" | x
- Mass Poetry Festival's Ekphrastic Gallery Contest - Winner: "August, In Heat Wave" | x
- NYT Coming of Age in 2020 Contest - Finalist: "My AP Gov Class Takes the Political Compass Test"
- Smith College Annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls - Semifinalist: "The Sin of the Calf"
prose
2023
- Best of Net Nominee - "Grave" in Beaver Mag
- Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards - Honorable Mention
- National YoungArts Foundation - Merit: Short Story
- Write the World Novel Writing Competition 2021 - Highly Commended: "What the Morning Brings" (Excerpt) | x
- 2021 Wintermute Spec-Fic Contest - Commended: "Reconstruction" | x
- Ringling College's "Storytellers of Tomorrow" Contest - Honorable Mention (Literary Stories): "Gardening"
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards - Silver Key (Novel Writing): Of Silver and Swans | 2020
- NaNoWriMo YWP Novel Excerpt Contest - Official Runner-Up: Of Silver and Swans | 2020 | x
academic + misc.
2022
- NSLI-Y Alumni Travel Program - Korean
- Winter 2022 Virtual NSLI-Y - Merit Scholarship Recipient, Korean Language Program
- Babel Young Writers' Competition - First Place: "Speak good English: what makes a language correct?" | tbd