Select Awards & Residencies

 

2025 Winner of the Charles B. Wheeler Founder Prize from The Journal at Ohio State University.    Selected by Marcus Jackson

2025 2025 Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize by  Rhino Poetry

2025 Finalist for Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize by ONLY POEMS 

2024 Semi-finalist for Philip Levine Poetry Prize 

2024 Finalist for RHINO 2025 Founders' Prize

2024 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “Alone, In Halves” | Southeast Journal 

2024 Nominated for “Best of the Net” by The Journal out of Ohio State University

2024 Acceptance to Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference 

2024 Nomination for “Best New Poets Anthology” by Image Journal 

2024 Nomination for “Best New Poets Anthology” by Southeast Review 

2024 Publication of “Desire/Halves,” forthcoming from  Nine Syllables Press, a chapbook press created in partnership with the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College

2024 POETRY Foundation’s POEM OF the DAY, “And the Word for Moonlight is my Name.” 

2023 Finalist for Nine Syllables Chapbook Prize

2023 Finalist for Newfound Press Chapbook Prize  | Gloria Anzaldua Prize 

2023 Small Orange Press Emerging Woman Poet Honor

2022  Nominated for Pushcart  Prize, “On Oysters” | Southern Humanities Review

2022 Winner of the Best of the Net for “Here, the Wolves,” | Nominated by Pithead Chapel 

2021 Finalist for Gregory Djanikian Scholar of Poetry

2020 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “Brief Conversation with a Little Moon” | Ligeia Magazine 

2020 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “The Dive”  | Black Warrior Review 

2020 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “Us, Again in Arches” | The Hopper 

2020 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “Besides the Fear of Darkness”  | Nostrovia! Press 

2020 Winner of the Nostrovia! Press Prize

2020 Best of the Net nomination, “For the Next Extinction” | 3 Elements Review

2020 Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize

2020 Chosen as a Kundiman Poetry Fellow 

2019 Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “Your Love, the Animal” | Mojo Journal 

2019 Writer-in-Residence, Crush Curatorial/ HesseFlatow. Amagansett, NY

2019 Linda Corrente Memorial Prize, Highest Award for Second-Year Poetry Student at Columbia

2019 Chosen as Columbia University's Representative to the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival  

2017 Writer’s Retreat, Centennial Valley, MT 

2015 Full Fellowship for Graduate Program | Environment Humanities, University of Utah  

2015 Craig Arnold Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets 

2015 Runner-up of Judith Khan Memorial Prize

 

Education 

 

2020 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry

Columbia University, School of the Arts. New York, New York   4.0

 

2018 Master of Arts in Environmental Humanities 

The University of Utah, College of Humanities. Salt Lake City, Utah  3.9 

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2015 Honors Bachelor of Science, Environmental Studies

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature 

Bachelor of Arts, Gender Studies 

Minor in Urban Ecology 

The University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah  3.65 

Courses Taught | University of Utah

 

WRTG 2010-065 Intermediate Writing Fall 2017

ME EN 3400-01 Professional Communication for Mechanical Engineers Summer 2017

ME EN 3400-01 Professional Communication for Mechanical Engineers Spring 2017

MSE 5090-001 Case Studies in Material Engineering Spring 2017

WRTG 2010-015 Intermediate Writing Spring 2017

WRTG 2010-017 Intermediate Writing Fall 2016

WRTG 2010-022 Intermediate Writing Fall 2016

 

Languages 

 

Fluency: English | Urdu  | Hindi | Punjabi        Studying: Spanish