Awards & Recognition

2025

  • Baldwin For The Arts Fellow

2023

  • Winner of La Associación Dominicana de Críticos de Arte’s Prize for Criticism 2023 for Aqui y Alla: Winston Vargas Retrata la Comunidad de Washington Heights.

2022

  • Center for Fiction Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Fellow

  • PEN America Writing as Activism Fellow

  • Finalist for the Letras Latina's Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for La Kapital

2021

  • Finalist for Digging Through the Fat Editor's Choice Award for the short story “Mary”

2020

  • Winner for Thirty West Publishing Chapbook Contest for On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue

  • Finalist for the Letras Latina's Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for La Botanica Sold Dreams

  • Shortlisted for Publishing Genius' Weird Little Prose Book contest for On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue

2019

  • PEN Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers