AWARDS & HONORS
  • Finalist,  The 2017 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition, OBSCURA (ms.)
  • Semi-Finalist, The 2017 Word Works Open Reading Period,  SWALLOW (ms)
  • Semi-Finalist, The 2017 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Competition,  SWALLOW (ms.)
  • Finalist, 2017 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition,  "Litany of 'The Most Beautiful Suicide'" 
  • Winner, 2017 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award, "Skeleton Lake."
  • Finalist, 2017 Briar Cliff Review Annual Writing Contest, "If There is Such a Thing as Mercy" and "Reliquaries."
  • Special Merit, The Comstock Review's 2016 Muriel Craft Bailey Contest, "Armageddon" (poem).  Selected by Marge Piercy
  • Semi-Finalist, The 2016 Word Works Washington Prize, SWALLOW (ms.)
  • Award Recipient,  2016 Individual Excellence Award from The Ohio Arts Council
  • Finalist, 2016 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, SWALLOW (ms.)
  • Semi-Finalist,The 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry, SWALLOW (mss.)
  • Honorable Mention, The 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize Competition, SWALLOW (ms).  Selected by Mekeel McBride
  • Third Place, The 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize, “Dead Hummingbird.” Selected by D.A. Powell
  • Finalist, Richard Peterson Prize, Crab Orchard Review, “The Drowned Church of Potosí, Venezuela,” 2014
  • Winner, Katherine & Lee Chilcote Foundation Award for Excellence in Poetry, 1998.  OUT OF EDEN
  • Winner, Cleveland State University Poetry Prize, 1996. OUT OF EDEN
  • Finalist, Four Way Books Poetry Competition, 1995. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: Albert Rios)
  • Finalist, The Ohio State University/ The Journal Award in Poetry, 1995. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: David Citino)
  • Winner, Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature, 1994
  • Finalist, The National Poetry Series, 1993. OUT OF EDEN
  • Finalist, Four Way Books Poetry Competition, 1993. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: Robert Pinsky)
  • Finalist, The Ohio State University/ The Journal Award in Poetry, 1993. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: David Citino)
  • Winner, Paumanok Poetry Award, 1992. SUNY Farmingdale
  • Winner, Mississippi Valley Review 20th Anniversary Writing Contest, 1991. "The Truth" (Judge: Richard Wilbur)
  • Winner, Tom McAfee Discovery Feature, 1991. “Horse Latitudes” The Missouri Review
  • Second Place, Colorado Review, 1st Annual Martha Scott Trimble Poetry Award. "Rehearsals"  (Judges: Jorie Graham & Jim Galvin)
  • Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1991
  • Winner, Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize, 1990. THE RAPTURE OF MATTER
  • Pushcart Prize, 1990. "What The Blue Jay Said"
  • Finalist, AWP Award Series, 1990. THE RAPTURE OF MATTER (Judge: Ellen Bryant Voigt)
  • First Place, 21st Annual Midwest Writer's Conference, 1989. "Horse Latitudes" (Judge: Elton Glaser)