FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS

VONA Scholar 2026, Voices of Our Nation

Michael Collier Scholarship for Poetry, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, 2025

Poetry Fellow, Pocantico Residency, Hudson Valley Writers Center & Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Nominee, Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, Summer-Fall 2024

Maat Scholarship, Community of Writers Conference, 2024

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

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

WRITING CONTESTS AND FEATURES

‘Bollywood Sex Poem’ shortlisted for the Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in Poetry

‘the river’ placed as a finalist in the Fiddlehead Poetry Contest, 2025

‘Seedling Song’ shortlisted for the Capilano Review Fall Contest, 2025

Finalist, Scotti Merrill Award for Poets, Key West Literary Seminars, 2025

Shortlisted for the Alpine Poetry Prize, 2025

‘About The Work’ feature in about the poem Four Seasons, Chicago in Southeast Review, Feb 2026

Second place, Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh" call for art Literary Art - Adult category, Feb 2024.

The poem Alien in America was exhibited at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh for a month.

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

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

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, April 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, Aug 2021