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Select Creative Writing Publications
“Sacrifice”: The Best Teen Writing (p43), Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Polyphony Lit, Eulogy to Silence: The World’s Best Teen Poets (p33)
“65 Cybele”: The Poetry Society (UK), Atmos, People Need Nature, The Phoenix
“Altar for Daughterhood”: Harvard Advocate
“Afterglow": Raleigh Review (p81)
“Aubade at Poyang Lake”: The Poetry Society (UK)
“Kill List”: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award Commended Anthology
“Brother Portrait, Blurred”: Counterclock, Eulogy to Silence: The World’s Best Teen Poets (p32)
“Evil Things, Good Things”: 1455, Penn State Behrend, Stone Soup
“Pink Milk”: Hippocrates Prize Anthology
“Kyoto”: West Trestle Review
“Open Sun”: Nuclear Peace Foundation, Eulogy to Silence: The World’s Best Teen Poets (p31)
“Catalogue of Ripening”: West Trestle Review
Select Journalism Publications
“In My Own Backyard,” Blue Marble Review
“‘Blue’” Sheds New Light on a Familiar Color,” Syosset Advance
“Empowering Virtual Conference with Congresswoman Grace Meng,” Syosset Advance
“Syosset Creates Special Production of The Little Mermaid,” Syosset Jericho Tribune
“LILAC Honors Local Veterans,” Syosset Jericho Tribune
“Community Drawn Together Despite Disaster,” Syosset Jericho Tribune
“Thank You to Our Heroes,” Syosset Jericho Tribune
“Syosset G.I.R.L. Talk Empowering Next Generation Women Leaders,” Syosset Jericho Tribune
Amplifying Voices with Another Kind of Girl Collective, Stone Soup
“The Refugee Children Crisis”, Stone Soup
Select Writing Awards and Book Deals
Poetry chapbook Catalogue of Ripening published by the Children’s Art Foundation-Stone Soup (October 2022) with endorsement from Ellen Bass, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets: recipient of 5 awards in the 2023 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Contest (presented by Monsters Inc.) including a 2nd place in Youth Author Nonfiction and finalist in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards’ Young Authors Under 25 category
Novel Broken Strings, forthcoming from MacKenzie Press as a finalist in the Secret Kids International Book Publishing Contest
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: 9-time national medalist with 6 gold and 3 silver in journalism, critical essay, personal essay/memoir, poetry, and expanded art categories; work displayed in National Exhibition in NYC and D.C.; selected from ~330,000 entries for the Civic Expression Award ($1,000); winning work featured by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and published in The Best Teen Writing; 20 regional gold keys
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award: Commended winner (top 100 poets selected from 6,700+ global teen poets and 17,000+ submissions); published in the 2020 Foyle Anthology
Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose: Semifinalist; one of four high school poets selected from 1,000+ global high school and college entrants across genres, 2022
“Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis” Challenge: youngest global winner of 2021 competition; spoke out against climate injustice and performed winning poem during the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), Glasgow UK