awards


Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Writing Fellow - given by SVWC and WriteGirl in 2023

Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2022 for her nonfiction piece “daily routine” featured in New Orleans Review

Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2021 for her nonfiction hybrid piece “to the brown nippled girls and the daughters of immigrant fathers” featured in Exposition Review

Academy of American Poets College Prize

Academy of American Poets College Prize

Finalist of the Academy of American Poets College Prize — received in 2021 for her poem “i am a brown girl”

Voyage 2020 First Chapters Contest

Voyage 2020 First Chapters Contest

Long-listed in the YA First Chapters competition hosted by The Voyage Journal — received in 2020 for the first chapters of her novel, winnie, not winnetka

Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Fund for Young Writers

Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Fund for Young Writers

3x recipient of The Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Scholarship “to encourage creative writing in the fields of fiction, poetry, drama, and light verse” — received in 2018, ‘19, ‘20

2022 Recipient of the Sandra Cisneros Fellowship - given by the Under the Volcano writing residency and literary festival

2021 Sucker for a Pretty Flash Contest

2021 Sucker for a Pretty Flash Contest

Runner-up of Emerge Literary Journal’s 2021 Sucker for a Pretty Flash Contest — received in 2021 for her microfiction story “good immigrant”

The Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize

The Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize

Recipient of The Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize “to recognize that undergraduate student or staff member, other than faculty, who submits the best poem on relationships among women” — received in 2021

Purple Wall Stories Story Tournament

Purple Wall Stories Story Tournament

Voted Purple Wall’s November 2020 Champion in their month-long short story competition featuring 8 writers and 8 stories — received in 2020 for her short story bed

Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2022 for her nonfiction piece “glorious” featured in Alebrijes Review

The Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies

The Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies

Co-recipient of The Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies — received in 2021 for her essay "The LGBTQIA+ Movement in Latin America​: Its History, Its Future, and Its Legacy" written in collaboration with Henry Bethell

The Gateway Review — The LGBTQ Issue

The Gateway Review — The LGBTQ Issue

Chosen as the Editor’s Choice Story in “The Gateway Review: The LGBTQ Issue” — received in 2019 for her short story la niña

2018 Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction

2018 Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction

2x recipient of The Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction — received in 2018 for her short story el lechero and in 2021 for her short story la pequeña


honors


Songs of Freedom: Renée Fox + WriteGirl

Songs of Freedom: Renée Fox + WriteGirl

1 of 36 featured writers in LAX mural “Songs of Freedom: Renée Fox + WriteGirl” — featured in 2019 for her untitled haiku

Featured writer in “Reflection on Becoming” to celebrate the NHM Commons construction on the theme of ‘becoming’, in collaboration with WriteGirl and the Natural History Museum — featured in 2021

Featured writer in a reading hosted by Hoy Los Angeles newspaper and WriteGirl, a nonprofit for teenage girls centered on the craft of creative writing and empowerment” — featured in 2017 for untitled prose piece