AWARDS & HONORS
2024
  • Winner, 2024 Longleaf Press Book Contest, Dark Octaves, selected by Roger Weingarten (forthcoming, Winter 2024)
  • Finalist, 2024 Crosswinds Poetry Contest, "The Whale." (Judge" April Ossmann)
2023
  • Winner, 2023 Jacar Press Chapbook Contest, Pietà, selected by Saddiq Dzukogi. (available now)
  • Finalist, 2023 14th Annual Terrain.org Poetry Contest, "The Gryphon Vulture's Prayer"
  • Third Place, 2023 Crosswinds Poetry Contest, "Turkey Buzzard Gospel." (Judge: Alexandria Peary, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire)
2022
  • Finalist, 2022 The Word Work Washington Prize, DARK OCTAVES (ms.)
  • Semi-Finalist, 2022 The Journal's Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, FORTUNATE FALL (ms.) 
2021
  • Finalist, 2021 The Word Work Washington Prize, DARK OCTAVES (ms.)
 2020
  • Finalist,​ 2020 The Word Works Open Reading Period, DARK OCTAVES (ms.)
  • Finalist, 2020 The Word Work Washington Prize, DARK OCTAVES (ms.)
  • Second Place, 2020 The Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Contest, "Lot's Wife." (Judge: Patricia Smith)
2019
  • Semi-Finalist, 2019 Palette Spotlight Award, "Dirge"
2018
  • Finalist, ​2018 Palette Poetry Prize, "The Better Part"
2017
  • Finalist,  2017 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition, OBSCURA (ms.)
  • Semi-Finalist, 2017 Word Works Open Reading Period,  SWALLOW (ms)
  • Semi-Finalist, 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"
2016
  • Special Merit, 2016 The Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Contest, "Armageddon" (poem).  (Judge: Marge Piercy)
  • Semi-Finalist, 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.)
2015
  • Semi-Finalist, 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry, SWALLOW (ms.)
  • Honorable Mention, 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize Competition, SWALLOW (ms).  (Judge: Mekeel McBride)
  • Third Place, 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize, “Dead Hummingbird.” (Judge: D.A. Powell)
2014
  • Finalist, 2014 Richard Peterson Prize, Crab Orchard Review, “The Drowned Church of Potosí, Venezuela”
1998
  • Winner, 1998 Katherine & Lee Chilcote Foundation Award for Excellence in Poetry.  OUT OF EDEN
1996
  • Winner, 1996 Cleveland State University Poetry Prize. OUT OF EDEN
1995
  • Finalist, 1995 Four Way Books Poetry Competition. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: Albert Rios)
  • Finalist, 1995 The Ohio State University/ The Journal Award in Poetry. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: David Citino)
1994
  • Winner, 1994 Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature
1993
  • Finalist, 1993 The National Poetry Series. OUT OF EDEN​
  • Finalist, 1993 Four Way Books Poetry Competition. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: Robert Pinsky)
  • Finalist, 1993 The Ohio State University/ The Journal Award in Poetry. OUT OF EDEN (Judge: David Citino)
1992
  • Winner, 1992 Paumanok Poetry Award. SUNY Farmingdale
1991
  • Winner, 1991 Mississippi Valley Review 20th Anniversary Writing Contest. "The Truth" (Judge: Richard Wilbur)
  • Winner, 1991 Tom McAfee Discovery Feature. “Horse Latitudes” The Missouri Review
  • Second Place, 1991 Colorado Review, 1st Annual Martha Scott Trimble Poetry Award. "Rehearsals"  (Judges: Jorie Graham & Jim Galvin)
  • Fellowship, 1991 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference
1990
  • Winner, 1990 Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize. THE RAPTURE OF MATTER
  • Pushcart Prize, 1990. "What The Blue Jay Said"
  • Finalist, 1990 AWP Award Series. THE RAPTURE OF MATTER (Judge: Ellen Bryant Voigt)
1989
  • First Place, 1989 21st Annual Midwest Writer's Conference. "Horse Latitudes" (Judge: Elton Glaser)