The de Groot Foundation supports writers and the literary arts by providing a monetary award meant to inspire writers toward the completion of a promising work in progress.

One-month writing residency in Midlothian Scotland’s Hawthornden Castle.

One month writing residency on Fishers Island, NY, an island in Long Island Sound.

One-month writing residency on the site of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home in Austerlitz, New York funded by the Millay Colony for the Arts.

One month as a writing fellow in Sheridan, WY, thanks to the generous support of the Ucross Foundation.

One month writing residency at the Kebbel Villa in Schwandorf, Germany .

One month writing residency in Oysterville, WA, between the Willapa Bay and the Pacific on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula.

Fellowship funded by LMCC and the Trust for Governors Island providing creative time and space for artists, writers, and composers from the five boroughs of New York in response to COVID-19 and its devastating impact across the NYC cultural landscape.

Semi-finalist for fellowship to provide time and freedom from material considerations to a person seriously contemplating or pursuing a career as a writer.

I was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, an award that recognizes twelve emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story and aims to support and launch the careers of fiction writers.

One month in Sheridan, WY, as a writing fellow, thanks to the generous support of the Jentel Artist Residency Program. 

Two-week funded writing residency in Amherst, Virginia thanks to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

I'm a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle—an organization that honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.