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❤︎ AWARDS ❤︎
- WINNER of Bottlecap Press, Really Serious Literature, and the Taco Bell Quarterly‘s 2021 Taco Bell Residency Contest
- Resulted in earning a position as the SOLE RESIDENT immediately following the aforementioned contest
- Won a publishing contract, and upon completion of my limited edition chapbook Baby Wraith Burrito Bones, it was published in print by the presses listed above
- RUNNER-UP/2ND PLACE in Baby Teeth Journal’s 2022 Black Out Poetry Contest
- The work I submitted was titled “Transcript of the Extraterrestrial: English Translation by SPECIMEN #@~//212, 888, 060, 073,” a cross-disciplinary, multimedia piece
- 2020 Pushcart Prize NOMINEE for “American Pulp Fiction,” a poem that was published in So It Goes, the journal published by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
- 2020 GALLERY ARTIST and RECIPIENT of the Photography Merit Award for my digital visual piece titled “Realm of the Goddess” in the Santa Clarita Artists Association’s “2020 Annual Art Classic” show
- 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Award and US Review of Books FINALIST for Armageddon
- EXHIBITOR and RECIPIENT of a Special Recognition Award for my photograph, titled“Half Truths,” selected for and shown in Light Space & Time’s “10th Annual Figurative Show ” (2020)
- EXHIBITOR and RECIPIENT OF 2ND PLACE Prize in Photography and Digital Art for visual art piece titled “Fight Cage Wonderland,” which was shown in Light, Space & Time “4th Annual Colors Art Exhibition Figurative Show” (2020)
- 2019 SEMIFINALIST in Prometheus Dreaming’s “Prometheus Unbound 2020 Poetry Competition” for a written prose piece, titled “Continuous Cities 6”
- 2019-2021 RECIPIENT of the “Lillian Disney Scholarship” at the California Institute of the Arts
- EARNED a placement on the Dean’s List during the 2014 fall quarter at Arizona State University
- EARNED a spot on the Dean’s List during the 2014 spring quarter at Arizona State University
- 2012-2014 RECIPIENT of the “New American Dean’s Scholarship” at Arizona State University
❤︎ TITLES ❤︎
- Wrong Publishing, formerly Wrongdoing Magazine
- POETRY EDITOR (2021-2022)
- GUEST BLOGGER (2021-2022)
- MANAGING EDITOR (2022)
- HYBRID EDITOR (2023)
- HEAD OF MARKETING (2023)
- Decolonial Passage
- ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITOR (2021-2023)
- G.S. Press
- CO-FOUNDER (2021-2024)
- CO-EDITOR (2021-2024)
- HEAD OF MARKETING (2021-2024)
- BOOK DESIGNER AND COVER ARTIST (2021-2024)
- MERCH DESIGNER (2021-2024)
- WEB DESIGNER (2021-2024)
❤︎ DISTINCTIONS ❤︎
- FRONT COVER ARTIST and CONTRIBUTOR for the Cutbow Quarterly’s December 2022 Issue
- FRONT COVER ARTIST and CONTRIBUTOR for smoke and mold’s Fall 2021 Issue, titled “Hurricane Season”
- FRONT COVER ARTIST, FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER, and CONTRIBUTOR for Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing’s Spring 2020 Issue, titled “Vibrant Vision”
- FRONT COVER ARTIST, BACK COVER ARTIST, and CONTRIBUTOR for High Shelf Press, “Issue 14” (2020)
