awards & publications

Audio

Writing

“The All of It,” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2021
“The Secrets of Deviled Eggs,” The Bitter Southerner, November 2020
“My Grandfather and the Bomb that Destroyed Hiroshima,” The Telegraph, August 2020
“Gay Day at the Fair,” Entropy, February 2020
“A Secret City Opens Up,” Curbed, August 2018
“Bombed Without a Bang: The Nuclear Crisis We’re Already Living,” Catapult, October 2017
“Exposure,” Colorado Review,” Summer 2016 (Pushcart nominee, notable in Best American Essays 2017, AWP Intro Award Winner 2016)
“Homeplace,” Ploughshares, Winter 2015-16 (Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner 2015, notable in Best American Essays 2016)
“Beneath the Eyes of the Buddha,” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Winter 2015
“Letter from Hiroshima,” Guernica, August 2015
“The weight of a butterfly,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2015
“The Chair,” Guernica, February 2015
“Signal Fires on the Tibetan Plateau,” Guernica, January 2014
“Shelter,” blog series, Nowhere, January – June 2014
“Air-Conditioner Bombs,” The New York Times, January 2013

Press

Interview: In Our Backyard Podcast (December 2020)
Interview: iNews (August 2020)
Reviews of “The Bomb:” The Guardian, Financial Times, Radio Times, Daily Mail, Esquire

Awards

McKnight Fellow in Writing (2019)
Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing, Colgate University (2018-2019)
Notable essays listed in Best American Essays 2016 and 2017
AWP Intro Award – Nonfiction (2016)
W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (2016)
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant (2016)
Minnesota State Arts Board Grantee (2016)
Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner, Nonfiction (2015)
Gesell Award in Nonfiction (2015)
Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice Scholar (2015)
Walter H. Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowships (UMN Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, Summer 2015)
Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship (UMN Human Rights and Creative Writing Programs, Summer 2014)