Selected list of AWARDS/HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS
Border Less: A Novel, Silver Medalist for 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Regional Fiction (West-Pacific)
Border Less: A Novel, Finalist for 2022 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award
Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award; UCLA, 2022-2023
Border Less: A Novel, Longlisted for 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Grant from Center for Cultural Innovation, California, February 2020, May 2021 & 2022
Semi-finalist, The Black Lawrence Press’s The Big Moose Prize for Border Less, formerly titled Ladies Special, Homebound
Longlisted for C&R Press Book Award for Border Less, formerly titled Ladies Special, Homebound
2019 New Asian Writing Short Story Contest Award for my short story “Victorious”
Finalist for Feminist Press’s Louise Meriwether First Book Prize for Border Less, formerly titled Ladies Special, Homebound
UC Faculty Fellowship 2017 for “The OpEd Project: Write to Change the World,” offered to selected faculty from across nine UC campuses by UC Merced’s Center for the Humanities
Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award; UCLA, 2016-2017; 2015-2016
First Prize for my story “Excursion” at the contest organized by 14th International Short Story Conference, judged by Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise, Shanghai, July 2016
Liam Rector Scholarship in Fiction, Bennington Writing Seminars, 2014-2016
French Forum Editorial Assistant Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2010
Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2010 & 2009
The African Studies Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009
Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship; University of Pennsylvania, 2008
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2008
Pre-doctoral Research Grant (Mauritius), University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Graduate Summer Program at “Institut d’Études Françaises d’Avignon” (France); Bryn Mawr College & University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Francophone Cultural Exchange Scholarship at “Centre International de Rencontres Universitaires” (Tours, France); Lions Club of France, 2002