Juried Workshops

2024 StoryBoard Workshop with Matt Bell. Forthcoming August 2024

2024 One Story Writers' Conference with Hannah Tinti. Forthcoming Summer 2024

2024 Tin House Summer Workshop with Vanessa Chan (Portland, OR). July 2024

2024 Key West Literary Seminar: Advanced Fiction for Novelists with Rebecca Makkai. (Key West, FL). January 2024

2023 Tin House Autumn Workshop with Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR). November 2023

2023 Guernica Backdraft Fiction Workshop with Aram Mrjoian (Art Omi, NY). March 2023

Honors

2024 Scholarship | One Story Writers' Conference

2024 Veasna So Scholar in Fiction | The Adroit Journal

2024 Poet & Author Fellowship | Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

2023 Finalist, "The absence of want" | Short Editions: Short Story Contest  

2023 Tin House Scholar | Tin House Autumn Workshop

2023 Shortlisted, The Rusticated (Novel-in-progress) | The First Pages Prize

Readings

2023 The Jarnal Volume 3: Transitions. The Potter's House Bookstore, Washington D.C. May 6, 2023

2021 Writing on Race and Immigration: An Evening of Memoir. (Zoom) Lewis Latimer House Museum. May 1, 2021

Craft Classes

2024 Kweli Journal: The Art of the Short Story with Laura Pegram. February - March 2024

2023 Hudson Valley Writers Center: Intersections of Identity, Experience, History and Imagination with Brian Dempster. June 2023. Scholarship recipient

2023 Catapult: How to Start the Epic Novel with Eskor David Johnson. January - March 2023 

2022 Kundiman: Historical Fiction, Rewriting Ourselves Back into History with Jenny Tinghui Zhang. September - November 2022

2021 Lewis Latimer House Museum: Memoir & Autobiographical Writing Workshop with Abeer Hoque. March - May 2021. Scholarship recipient