Awards & Honors

Recipient of a 2027 Thrive Grant for Creation Myths: Queer Southern Stories of Belonging & Becoming

Small as a Woman named a finalist for the 2026 Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest, judged by Melissa Febos

Recipient of a 2026 South Arts Creative Practice Grant to support the completion of my manuscript

Creation of Woman, published in Longreads, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded Honorable Mention for “First-Person Essay” in the 2025 ASJA Awards

Controlled Burn, awarded runner-up in the W.W. Norton Writer’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Selected Publications

Was Sorority Rush The Straightest or Gayest Thing I’ve Ever Done?, Autostraddle

The Pinterest Board That Convinced Me I Was Queer, Autostraddle

Field Notes from 31 First Dates, Nashville Scene

Creation of Woman: Evangelical & Transgender in the Bible Belt, Longreads

La creazione della donna (Italian translation), Internazionale

12 Things I Wore, Repeller