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  • 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