The list below only includes awards, features, special recognitions, and other distinctions. It is not a comprehensive publication, exhibition, or design history.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2nd Place in Baby Teeth Journal’s March 2022 Black-Out Competition for “Transcript of the Extraterrestrial: English Translation by SPECIMEN #@~//212, 888, 060, 073.” Baby Teeth Journal (2022).
Winner of Really Serious Literature‘s Beefy Chapbook Potato-Rito Remote Residency To-Go Contest XXL in Collaboration with Bottlecap Press and Taco Bell Quarterly for Excerpt from Baby Wraith Burrito Bones. Really Serious Literature, Taco Bell Quarterly, and Bottlecap Press (2021).
*** DISCLAIMER: Neither the Taco Bell residency nor the resulting Taco Bell book ended up involving beef [or any other kind of meat] whatsoever. I refused to include meat in either.
Photography Merit Award: “Realm of the Goddess.” Santa Clarita Artists Association “2020 Annual Art Classic,” Santa Clarita Artists Association (2020).
Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist for Armageddon: Eric Hoffer Award, with the US Review of Books (2020).
Special Recognition for “Half Truths.” Light Space & Time “10th Annual Figurative Show” (2020).
2nd Place in Photography and Digital Art for “Fight Cage Wonderland.” Light Space & Time “4th Annual Colors Art Exhibition Figurative Show” (2020).
Selected Exhibitor for the “2020 Los Angeles stARTup Art Fair”. Venice, CA (2020).
Semifinalist for “Continuous Cities 6.” “Prometheus Unbound 2020 Poetry Competition,” Prometheus Dreaming (2019).
Recipient of the “Lillian Disney Scholarship.” California Institute of the Arts (2019-2021).
Recipient of the “New American Dean’s Scholarship.” Arizona State University (2012-2014).
MEDIA COVERAGE
Genrepunk Magazine, “Top 100 Indie Books of the 21st Century (So Far)” (2024).
PsYChO hOLosUitE [zine], “[De-Con-Struc] x( )-id </3 // Ami J. Sanghvi,” Oli Johns (2024).
PsYChO hOLosUitE [zine], “X()-id </3 and Galaxies in and around Shing Mun River,” Oli Johns (2024).
Wordgathering (Volume 16), “[IN]TRANSPIRING (Ami J. Sanghvi),” A. C. Riffer (2022).
KCIA Radio, “CalArtians in Exile,” Chance Vernon (2020).
Indie Book Club, Chrystele Myriam (2020).
“On Poetry and Blending Art Forms,” C. A. Campbell (2020).
Find Indie Books, C.J. Landry (2020).
Artist Spotlight, Michael J. Snow (2020).
Ancient Literature Dude, Reading of the Poem “Tsunami,” Jordan Ashley Moore (2020).
Ancient Literature Dude, Reading of the Poem “Alone,” Jordan Ashley Moore (2020).
Ancient Literature Dude, Reading of the Poem “Before I was a Mountain,” Jordan Ashley Moore (2020).
The US Review of Books (2020).
Rebecca’s Write Inspirations, Rebecca Reddell (2020).
Venice Radio, (99.1 FM), Mark Farina (2020).
Holly + Oats, Holland Parker (2019).
Features
“Spotlight.” Juice Droplet (2022).
“Contributor Feature.” Fatal Flaw Lit (2021).
“Featured Author and Artist.” The Sacrosanct Collective (2021).
“Featured Author.” VULCANALIA ’21: Digital Anthology. LUPERCALIA Press (2021).
“Featured Photographer.” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. The Word Project, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020).
FEATURED COVER ARTIST
“In Defense of the Infinite Self.” Cutbow Quarterly, Issue 2 (2022).
“Solar Grief.” Curi🅐 sity Kills, v.f. Thompson and the Dionysian Public Library (2022).
“Seeping Sepia.” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. The Word Project, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020).
“Arctic Looking Glass.” High Shelf Press. ISBN: 978-1734284249. Cathexis Northwest Press, No. 14 (2020).
“Somewhere Else.” High Shelf Press. ISBN: 978-1734284249. Cathexis Northwest Press, No. 14 (2020).
Invited Talks and Readings
“April 29, 2025: Featured Author.” Port Veritas Reading Series (2025).
“Diversity and Decolonization in Publishing.” Remote. Northeastern University (2021).
“How Decisions are Made in Publishing” (Tentative). Remote. The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. Bianca Marais (2021).
“Issue 2 (Aunty Issues) Launch Party.” Remote. Zindabad Magazine (2021).
“The fUnnYhAUs fRyykshow.” Sang Bleu Tattoo (Los Angeles), Zeno Scott (2021).
“CalArts Next Words Speaking Series.” Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts (2021).
“CalArts Writers Showcase: Elysium is Empty.” REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre (Los Angeles), California Institute of the Arts (2021).
“In the Spit of Spring.” Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts (2021).
“SPRAWL: First-Year Creative Writing Reading Series.” Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts (2020).