FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2025 Sangam House International Writers Residency, Bangalore

2025 Michael Collier Scholar, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

2025 Poetry Fellow, Pocantico Residency, Hudson Valley Writers Center

2024 Maat Scholar, Community of Writers Workshop

2023 Katherine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 

2022 Dietrich Fellow, MFA in Creative Writing, University of Pittsburgh

CONTESTS & FEATURES

Feb 2025 An About the Work Online Exclusive feature—reflection on the process of writing the poem, Four Seasons, Chicago in The Southeast Review’

Feb 2024 Alien in America: won second place in the "Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh" call for art Literary Art - Adult category

April 2022 Short Story Valentine’s Day longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2022

Jan 2022 All That Angrezi: chosen as a Spotlight runner-up for Eclectica’s Jan-Feb 2022 issue

April 2021 Frangipani in Lockdown: amongst 15 poems selected from over 1000 entries for the “Poetry in Bloom Project”, a collaboration between SWWIM Every Day, the O’ Miami Poetry Festival, poets Sandra Beasley and Neil de la Flor

Aug 2021 Birdwatching: poem & artist profile featured in Delhiwale, a daily column by Mayank Austin Soofi in Hindustan Times, one of India’s leading English dailies.