awards
Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Writing Fellow - given by SVWC and WriteGirl in 2023
Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2022 for her nonfiction piece “daily routine” featured in New Orleans Review
Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2021 for her nonfiction hybrid piece “to the brown nippled girls and the daughters of immigrant fathers” featured in Exposition Review
Finalist of the Academy of American Poets College Prize — received in 2021 for her poem “i am a brown girl”
Long-listed in the YA First Chapters competition hosted by The Voyage Journal — received in 2020 for the first chapters of her novel, winnie, not winnetka
3x recipient of The Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Scholarship “to encourage creative writing in the fields of fiction, poetry, drama, and light verse” — received in 2018, ‘19, ‘20
2022 Recipient of the Sandra Cisneros Fellowship - given by the Under the Volcano writing residency and literary festival
Runner-up of Emerge Literary Journal’s 2021 Sucker for a Pretty Flash Contest — received in 2021 for her microfiction story “good immigrant”
Recipient of The Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize “to recognize that undergraduate student or staff member, other than faculty, who submits the best poem on relationships among women” — received in 2021
Voted Purple Wall’s November 2020 Champion in their month-long short story competition featuring 8 writers and 8 stories — received in 2020 for her short story bed
Best of the Net Nominee — received in 2022 for her nonfiction piece “glorious” featured in Alebrijes Review
Co-recipient of The Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies — received in 2021 for her essay "The LGBTQIA+ Movement in Latin America: Its History, Its Future, and Its Legacy" written in collaboration with Henry Bethell
Chosen as the Editor’s Choice Story in “The Gateway Review: The LGBTQ Issue” — received in 2019 for her short story la niña
2x recipient of The Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction — received in 2018 for her short story el lechero and in 2021 for her short story la pequeña
honors
1 of 36 featured writers in LAX mural “Songs of Freedom: Renée Fox + WriteGirl” — featured in 2019 for her untitled haiku
Featured writer in “Reflection on Becoming” to celebrate the NHM Commons construction on the theme of ‘becoming’, in collaboration with WriteGirl and the Natural History Museum — featured in 2021
Featured writer in a reading hosted by Hoy Los Angeles newspaper and WriteGirl, a nonprofit for teenage girls centered on the craft of creative writing and empowerment” — featured in 2017 for untitled prose piece