Awards and Fellowships:

• Grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center writers' residency, August 2010.
  
• Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference student scholarship award, July 2010.
• Michael Steinberg Fellowship for creative nonfiction to attend the 2009 Solstice Summer Writers' Conference at Pine Manor College.
• Wellesley College's Davis prize for prose fiction, 2000.

Education and Affiliations:

• Harvard Extension School, certificate in publishing and communications (in progress).
• Lesley University, MFA, creative writing, 2008.
• Wellesley College, BA, medieval and renaissance studies, 2000.
• Member of PEN New England and Grub Street.