Awards
- Winner of the 2025 UQP Mentorship for Under-represented Writers
- Recipient of Faber Writing Academy’s 2025 Mid-year Writing a Novel Scholarship
- Winner of the 2024 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards (Narrative Non-fiction)
- 2025 Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship – Varuna, The National Writers’ House
- Recipient of the 2024 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship
- RTP scholarship – Western Sydney University (DCA, 2023–2026)
Award Shortlists
- Shortlisted for the 2025 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards (Nonfiction)
- Shortlisted for the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing
- Shortlisted for the 2021 Deakin Nonfiction Prize
Publications
- Thoughts on the international student caps? – Cordite, Issue 117
- 10 Steps to Becoming an Adult – The Audacity, September 2024
- Writing Task 1 – Island 171, 2024
- Student Visas and the Dream of Home – Kill Your Darlings, March 2023
- Chaste – Island 165, 2022
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