Honors & Awards

  • "Navigation" received an Honorable Mention in the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition sponsored by Storysouth (2020).
  • "But First, We Must Eat the Skies," received an Honorable Mention in the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition sponsored by Storysouth (2019).
  • Selected as a finalist in the 2018 NC State Poetry Contest, judged by Marianne Boruch, for "The Long Goodbye", "Navigation", and "Alone in the Wilderness, You Know My Name".
  • ​"Every House You Seek Will Always Burn" was a finalist for the James Wright Poetry Prize sponsored by Mid-American Review, judged by Maggie Smith (2016)​
  • "What the Police Report Will Miss" received an Editor's Prize sponsored by Comstock Review (2012)
  • "What No One Told Me About Autumn" and "Fable For Boys Who Chase Tornadoes" awarded by Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2012)
  • "Summer, 1983" received an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize sponsored by Cutthroat, judged by Dorianne Laux​
  • "Hallowed" & "Wal-Mart: Aisle Five" awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2008)
  • 1st Place Poetry Contest sponsored by Writer's Group of the Triad, judged by Kathryn Stripling Byer, former NC Poet Laureate (2008), for "Waiting for My Mother to Forget My Name".
Pushcart Nominations
  • "Lately I Haven't Been Living the Life That I Want" which appeared in One (Issue 30, 2024) FINALIST
  • "Postcard from Bodega Bay, 1963" which appeared in The Lindenwood Review (Issue 5, 2015)
  • "Lunch at the Limbo Café with Anne & Sylvia" which appeared in Kestrel (Spring, 2013)
  • "Elegy With an Eighty Percent Chance of Precipitation" which appeared in Border Crossing (Fall, 2013)
  • "Husky" which appeared in Jabberwock Review (Winter, 2011)​