Honors

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• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, National American Voices Medal, National Gold Medal, National Silver Medal, 2025

• 27th Annual New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, Semifinalist, 2025

• South Regional Youth Poet Laureate Competition, Winner, 2025 

• National YoungArts, Creative Nonfiction, Winner, 2025

• National YoungArts, Creative Nonfiction, Winner, 2024

• National YoungArts, Creative Nonfiction, Honorable Mention, 2023

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, National Gold Medal, 2022

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, National Silver Medal, 2023

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, American Voices Nominee, 2025

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Sixteen Regional Recognitions (including 8 Gold Keys, 1 for portfolio), 2025

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Twenty-Seven Regional Recognitions (including 8 Gold Keys), 2024

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Twenty-Five Regional Recognitions (including 8 Gold Keys), 2023

• Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Seventeen Regional Recognitions (including 5 Gold Keys), 2022

• DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, Finalist, 2025

• National High School Poetry Contest, Topical Winner, 2024

• Inaugural Maryland Youth Poet Laureate, 2024

• Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate, 2024

• Prose Reader, The Adroit Journal, 2024

• Best American High School Writing, Finalist, Between the Lines, 2024 (responsible for recognition)

• Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Finalist and Honorable Mention, 2024

• Princeton University's Leonard L. Milberg '53 High School Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, 2023

• DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, Winner, 2023

• National Council of Teachers in English (NCTE) Award, First Class Distinction in Writing, 2023

• Mary Ann Hutchison Memorial Youth Story Contest, Honorable Mention, 2023

• Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Writing Competition, Second Prize in Nonfiction, 2022

• Author of Tomorrow, Commendation, 2022

• Alan Dessoff ’53 Memorial Award, Recipient, 2022

• Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival: Out of this World, Honorable Mention, 2022 

• Writopia Essay Contest, Panelist, 2022

• Interlochen Virginia B. Ball Scholarship, Recipient, 2022

• Interlochen Arts Camp, Fine Arts Award for Creative Writing, 2022

• Interlochen Arts Camp Collage featured performer, Summer 2022

• New York Times Student Essay Competition, Finalist, 2021

• Creative Communications, Top 10 Winner, 2021

• New York Times 8th Annual Student Editorial Contest, Round 4 Finalist, 2021

• Friends Journal Magazine, Honorable Mention, 2020

• Bow Seat Ocean Awareness, Silver Award, 2020

• Friends Journal Magazine, Honorable Mention, 2019 [age 12]

• Gabriela Mistral Youth Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention, 2019 [age 12]

• Stone Soup Magazine Short Story Podcast Contest, Third Place, 2019 [age 12]

Creative Writing Honors, Awards, and Recognition