Essays nominated for Best American Essays, 2022 and 2021
Essays nominated for Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2022 and 2021
Essays nominated for Best of the Net, 2020
2021 Recipient of the “My Time” Fellowship for Parents from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
Rediscovering Home: A Conversation with DW McKinney – Shenandoah Literary
Meet DW McKinney, Columns Senior Editor — Raising Mothers
2021 Best Microfiction nomination — wigleaf
2020 Finalist, Remember in November Contest in Creative Nonfiction, Hippocampus Magazine – I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017
2020 Writer-in-Residence with Juniper Editing & Creative
2020 Fiction Web Residency with The New Southern Fugitives
The 10 Most Popular Narratively Stories of 2019 — My Secret Life as a Mysterious Multimillionaire’s Personal Assistant
Essay recommended by The Unglossed Podcast in episode: “Balance”, September 25, 2019
2019 First Place, Boston Accent Lit’s ‘Wicked Short’ Nonfiction Contest — In the Drink
2018 Hellebore Scholarship Award Creative Nonfiction Honoree — Bitter Grief