Honors and Awards
The 2025 Pushcart Prize
Nominated for the poem “All of his knives” by EPOCH Literary
Black Warrior Review’s 2025 Poetry Contest
Finalist for the poem “Baby Lamb”
Key West Literary Seminar - 2026 EWA Scotti Merrill Award
Poetry Finalist. The judges said: “these poems are interrogations of femininity, faith, and violence well rendered. The line breaks are solid —always creating moments of surprise or pulling me through to the next line— and there's an almost folk-tale-like tone to some of these poems. A really, really interesting sample.”
Better English Endowment & Bain & Irene Stewart Endowment, 2025-2030
Fully funded PhD Fellowships, University of Tennessee
Tin House Reading Fellowship, 2025-2026
Reading Tin House Fellowship + 2026 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow
Bellevue Literary Review, John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, 2025
For the poem “Cleaver”
Judge Leila Mottley said: “‘Cleaver’ is cutting in its brevity, slicing right to the heart of a poem that contends with the intimacy of violence, power, and family. I felt it in my bones.”
University of Tennessee, Poetry Graduate Award, 2025
For the poem “Cleaver”
Judge Susan Nguyen said: “the author does an astounding job balancing the tension between cruelty and tenderness in this piece, where we are confronted with the contradictions of violence and love in a complex familial relationship. This is a precise and stunning poem. A luminous voice.”
University of Memphis, The Pinch Journal Literary Award in Poetry, 2025
Runner-up for the poem “Sahuayo: butchery, slaughterhouse”
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships in Fiction and Poetry, 2025
Poetry Finalist
University of Tennessee, Volunteer of Distinction Award, 2025
In recognition of academic and creative achievements
Tin House Fellowship, Winter 2025
Poetry Workshop
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colin White Award, 2024
Best Modern English Literature Thesis for “I don’t feel blue, I am blue”: El azulamiento del cuerpo femenino por medio de la dolencia en Bluets de Maggie Nelson, UNAM, 2021
Community of Writers, Letras Latinas Fellowship, 2024
Full Fellowship
University of Tennessee, John C. Hodges and John B. Emperor Fellowships, 2023
Fellowships for fully-funded Master’s studies
CONAHCYT-FONCA, AFPE Support for Culture and Art Professionals for Postgraduate Studies Abroad, 2023-2025
Full Fellowship
University of East Anglia, British Centre for Literary Translation, 2022
Full Fellowship