She was selected this year as a BookEnds fellow, a year-long novel intensive, co-founded and co-directed by Meg Wolitzer and Susan Scarf Merrell. She’s been a grand prize winner in the New Millennium Writing contest for fiction, for the first chapter of her novel, “High Dive,” which was also award a Kirkus star. She has also been a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Contest and the William Faulkner Writing Contest.

She received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a M.A. in creative writing from City College of New York. She has also been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Soros Fellowship for her writing.