Artist: Isabelle Albuquerque

Fiction

Bad Dreams • forthcoming in EPOCH Magazine

La Ménagerie • forthcoming in Fairy Tale Review

The Dissection QuestionOne Story

The Sweetheart Murder Ballad Room Maudlin House

Poetry

Awards

Sewanee Review Fiction Contest Finalist 2024 • Judged by Lorrie Moore • “Bad Dreams”

Pushcart Prize in Fiction Nomination 2024One Story • “The Dissection Question”

Henfield Prize Winner 2024 • UC Irvine • Awarded annually to a top 5 MFA students in the country

Iowa Review Award in Fiction Finalist 2024 • Judged by Sequoia Nagamatsu • “The Wooden Castle”

UCLA Extension Program James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing Nomination 2019 • Adam McOmber • City in the Sky

Pushcart Prize in Poetry Nomination 2019Sugar House Review • “Things are Not Going Well Between You and Julianna”

Pushcart Prize in Poetry Nomination 2019Menacing Hedge • “The Man’s Last Moments by the Mermaid”

Pushcart Prize in Fiction Nomination 2019Corvid Queen • “Speechless Beauty”

Interviews

Will Allison on ‘The Dissection Question’” • One Story • February 2024

Talking with Emma Cairns Watson” • Carve Magazine • September 2019

Fellowships and Residencies

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) • November 2024

Olympic Valley Community of Writers • Full Scholarship • Summer 2024

Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction • Longlisted • 2024-2026