Meridian, the Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, awarded him the 2011 Editors’ Prize for his story “Illegal Dreams.” He was also the winner of the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for his story, “The Vast Garden of Strangers” and is a recipient of the Forugh Farrokhzad Fellowship Award given by the Vermont Studio Center. His work has also appeared in 236, the Alumni Literary Journal of BU Creative Writing.