AWARDS

​Wayne State University — English Departmental Awards — 2013

Albert Feigenson Scholarship for Music and English
To support work on two creative projects:

• Musical storybook Defeats the Porpoise; or, Johnny & the Indomitable Sea Monster
• A collection of short stories called Jehovah’s Witnesses & Other Friendly Strangers

Loughead-Eldredge Endowed Scholarship In Creative Writing

• ​To support continued creative writing projects

Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award In Creative Writing

• 1st Place in Fiction for an adaptation of Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave called “Caesar & Clemene"
• ​1st Place in Poetry for a poem called “A Cockroach Poem”​

Wayne State University — English Departmental Awards — 2014

Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award In Creative Writing

• ​2nd Place in Poetry for a pair of poems called “She Wore a Crown Upon Her Head” and “Fore Morn

​Tompkins Award for Fiction

• 2nd Place in Poetry for a trio of poems called “She Wore a Crown Upon Her Head”, “Fore Morn”, and “She Lights in the Harbor”

John Clare Prize for Poetry

• Honorable Mention in Poetry for a pair of poems called “She Wore a Crown Upon Her Head” and “Fore Morn”