Awards

Writing

· Awarded the Anderson Center Residency in Red Wing, Minnesota, with writing time dedicated to All the Feral, Fierce Things: A Wildfire Memoir (July 2021)

· The first chapter of All the Feral, Fierce Things awarded an Honorable Mention by Judge Nina Furstenau for the Gesell Award for Nonfiction, University of Minnesota (November 2020)

· Awarded the Marcella DeBourg Fellowship by the University of Minnesota’s English Department for her wildfire memoir, a project which brings “creative expression to women’s lives” (May 2020)

· Awarded O’Rourke Travel Fellowships in service of her wildfire memoir by the University of Minnesota (2019, 2020)

· Awarded a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Summer Research & Travel Grant to conduct interviews and research in service of her wildfire memoir (May 2019)

· “The Fire Rises” selected as First Finalist by Judge Michelle Orange in the Vela national nonfiction contest (2014)

· “The Fires Rises” received an Honorable Mention in Nonfiction in Plain China, a national anthology of the year’s best undergraduate writing (2014)

· Awarded Grinnell College’s Henry York Steiner Prize for Short Fiction for “Naomi” (1st place, 2013), “Brother” (2nd place, 2014) and “On Highways to Campton” (2nd place, 2012)

· Winner of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Nick Adams Short Story Contest for “Gusanos” (2012)

Teaching

· Awarded the University of Minnesota’s English Department Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence for her work teaching creative writing to undergraduates (January 2021)

· Awarded the Council of Graduate Students’ Aaron and Anna Beek Graduate Student Teaching Award for her work teaching writing to undergraduates at the University of Minnesota (January 2020)

Other

· The Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium includes “60 Years at the Cloquet Forestry Center: The Center’s Work, People & Life from 1960 to Today” in their Member Showcase (December 2022)

· Awarded a Mark Mahaney Memorial Climbing Scholarship by the American Alpine Club-Twin Cities Chapter. The scholarship promotes alpine education and experience-based learning through funding to attend the Michigan Ice Fest (February 2022) 

· Awarded an Honorable Mention for U-Spatial’s Mapping Prize for “60 Years at the Cloquet Forestry Center: The Center’s Work, People & Life from 1960 to Today” (June 2021)

· “The Camp 8 Stand: The Story of the Cloquet Forestry Center’s Red Pines” taught as a model Story Map during U-Spatial’s “Story Maps 101: Visual Storytelling with Maps,” as well as during trainings by the Digital Arts, Sciences & Humanities at the University of Minnesota (2020-2021)

· Awarded the Helena Percas de Ponseti Senior Prize in Spanish by Grinnell College’s Spanish Department (May 2014)

· Awarded the Joseph F. Wall Scholarship by Grinnell College (April 2013)

· Awarded the James C. Randall Fellowship by Grinnell College’s Spanish Department for nine weeks of volunteer work with environmental organizations in Costa Rica (April 2012)