McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern

Composure. Issue 80, Nov. 2025.

Runner-up for the Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction.

Nominated by McSweeney’s for The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

COLUMBIA JOURNAL

His Girl. Issue 63, Feb. 2026.

Runner-up for the ‘24-25 Print Short Fiction Contest

His Girl deftly balances an irreverent, singular humor with a haunting exploration of the fear of losing one's sense of self to the creeping inevitability of adulthood.
— Nafkote Tamirat, author of The Parking Lot Attendant