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Awards and Recognitions

  • “Dyke”. Canthius Magazine’s Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry. Shortlist, 2026.
  • “Dyke”, “I Imagine I am Dead”, and “What We Owe Teen Girls.” Canthius Magazine’s Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry. Longlist, 2026.
  • The Packaging.” Riddle Fence Poetry Contest. Winner, 2025

  • “My Queer” and “When was the last time I thanked my mother.” Robert Clayton Casto Prize for Poetry. Winner, 2021.
  • “Queer/Joy.” Vallum Chapbook Award. Shortlisted Author, 2021.
  • “Razor Burn.”Wordfeast Postcard Story Contest. Shortlisted Author, 2018.

The Packaging” is, as its title suggests, not only a poem, but a parcel. Open it, and unwrap a sequence of themes stitched together with such skill that its transitions are seamless — the packaging of cream becomes the packaging of skin, drawers, secrets, stories.

Honouring the moon and its many versions, working in circles and cycles, yet focused on familial lines and lineage, “The Packaging” is a gift that revels in the unraveling of narrative threads. Carefully crafted, this is a poem of creation, pure creativity.

It lives, it loves, it loops, it lashes

– Hannah Green, judge’s citation from the 2025 Riddle Fence Poetry Contest

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