Awards

Fellow, 2025 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices @ Lambda Literary

• Speculative fiction genre, working with Nisi Shawl.

• “Launched in 2007, Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices is the the nation’s premier LGBTQ writing residency. It provides a uniquely powerful opportunity to participants, jumpstarting the careers of dozens of LGBTQ writers every year.”

Runner-up, Page-Turner Prize, 2025 Popular Fiction Awards @ Emerson College

• Judge Joshua Corin: “Void Cycle has a wonderful setting for a speculative adventure story! The combination of the prison camp and the alien fungus alone is some giddy nightmare fuel and now a “suicide squad” plot on top of that.”

Co-Winner, First Chapter Prize, 2024 Popular Fiction Awards @ Emerson College

• Judge Kim McLarin: "A delightfully scary, breathtakingly sharp and surprisingly witty plunge into either grief or madness, or how grief is madness, or something else the reader will definitely keep reading to figure out."

Honorable Mention, Page-Turner Prize, 2024 Popular Fiction Awards @ Emerson College

• Judge Rebecca Thorne: "Mirza is such a fun, badass character, and I love this gorgeously complex science fiction setting. The absolutely stellar writing style is what locked it for me—I think this is beautifully written, and could easily could be found on any bookshop’s shelf!"