Shortlisted for the BWW Short Story Award 2024.
Second Prize in the New Myths Readers’ Choice Awards 2024.
Second Prize in The Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2023.
Finalist in the 2022 CRAFT Fiction Contest, judged by Amelia Gray.
Finalist in the 2021 Salamander Fiction Contest, judged by Yiyun Li.
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2021 by The Hopper for ‘The Beached Whale’
Winner of The Written Circle Short Story Competition 2021, judged by Anjum Hasan and Saikat Majumdar.
First runner-up in the Bengaluru Review Short Story Competition 2020.
Published in The Best Asian Short Stories 2019 anthology (Kitaab International, Singapore)
Published in The Best Asian Short Stories 2018 anthology (Kitaab International, Singapore)
Published in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018 anthology (Kitaab International, Singapore)
Awarded a residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, Santa Cruz, California, in 2018 as part of the Katha Fiction Contest Prize.
Winner of the Katha Fiction Contest 2017 co-sponsored by India Currents and the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods and judged by Steve Kettmann and Sarah Ringler.
Second runner-up in the Fellows of Nature South Asia Short Story Competition 2016.
Received a Consolation Prize in the New Asian Writing Short Story Competition 2016.
Accepted into the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (Nonfiction Seminar 2015).
Awarded the Lavanaya Sankaran Fellowship by the Sangam House international writers’ residency in 2014.
Won third place in the Katha Fiction Contest 2012, organized by India Currents and Khabar magazines, and judged by Chitra Divakaruni and Bharati Kirchner.
Won second place in the Unisun-Reliance Timeout Short Story Competition 2011, judged by Shashi Deshpande and Veena Seshadri.
Won third place in the Katha Fiction Contest 2010, organized by India Currents and Khabar magazines, and judged by Raywat Deonandan and Minal Hajratwala.
