2024: Pushcart Nomination for “A Place of Dreams."
2024: Best of the Net Nomination for "A Place of Dreams."
2024: AWP Intro Journal Awards Honorable Mention for "Nineteen Insecurities as Exposed by the Harsh Glare of a Dentist's Operating Light."
2024: Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship for Novel-in-progress.
2024: Supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Novel-in-progress.
2023: Louis Van Sickle Fellowship in Creative Writing.
2023: Tin House Workshop Selection.
2023: Amelia Gray Short Fiction Contest for "A Place of Dreams."
2021: Othmer Fellowship, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
2021: Best of the Net Nomination for "An Immigrant's Checklist."
2021: University of Bayreuth Fellowship for Novel-in-progress.
2020: Longlisted for the BBC Comedy Writer's Room.
2019: Miles Morland African Writer's Award.
2018: Purple Hibiscus Trust Writing Workshop Selection and Funding.
2018: Facebook Screenwriting Workshop Selection and Funding.
2018: British Council Initiative Children's Writing Workshop Selection and Funding.