2026 Best Microfiction

Nominated for the poem “ENM” by ANMLY

The Best Small Fictions 2025

Nominated for the poem “ENM” by ANMLY

The 2025 Pushcart Prize

Nominated for the poem “Dear Father,” by The McNeese Review

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.”

Best New Poets 2025

Nominated for the poem “Sahuayo: butchery, slaughterhouse”

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 Top 20 Finalists

University of Tennessee, Volunteer of Distinction Award, 2025

In recognition of academic and creative achievements

Tin House Fellowship, Winter 2025

Poetry Workshop Fellowship

ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Prize 2024

Longlisted, Top 50

AWP Intro to Journals Award 2024

Nominated for the nonfiction essay “Licorice, Skin, Ours” by The University of Tennessee

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