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Awards

2024 Cow Creek Review Chapbook Prize

2024 Rattle Poetry Prize, Finalist

2024 Slippery Elm Poetry Prize

2024 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, Third Place

2023 Inaugural Ashland Poetry Press Broadside Contest

2023 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize

2019 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, Third Place

2019 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

2019 On Teaching Poem Prize

2017 Paterson Poetry Prize, Honor Book

2017 Phillip H. McMath Book Award, Finalist

2016 The Manchester Poetry Prize (UK)

2016 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award in Poetry

2015 The Red Hen Press Poetry Award

2015 The Brighthorse Prize in Poetry

2015 The Thayer Fellowship in the Arts

2015 Stone Canoe’s Bea González Prize for Poetry

2014 S. Stewart and Barbara Baker Gordon Memorial Scholarship

2014 The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, Second Place

2014 Hunger Mountain’s Ruth Stone Poetry Prize

2014 The Madison Review Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in poetry

2013 Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize, First Runner Up

2013 Academy of American Poets College Prize

2012 The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, First Place

2012 AWP Intro Journals Awards, Honorable Mention

2012 S. Stewart and Barbara Baker Gordon Memorial Scholarship

2011 NEH Summer Seminar: Reading Don Quixote, Scholar


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