Literary Prizes and Awards

2nd Place Winner The First Pages Prize 2024
Novel excerpt: "That Night at the Jubilee Hotel"

The Cultural Literary Excellence Award by the Trinidad and Tobago United Community Association (TATUCA), awarded at Queens, NY 2023

Iowa Review Award for Fiction 2022
Short story: "To Kill a Soucouyant"

Island Voices Caribbean Contemporary Classics Short Story Prize 2023
Short story: "She Wore Red to the Cremation"

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Prize 2020
Short story: "The Case of the Missing Eggs"

Finalist Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Prize 2019
Short story: "Cashew Heist"