Recent & Selected Awards/Recognitions
- Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2024
- Excellence in Teaching Fellowship, The Loft Literary Center 2023
- Maryland State Arts Council grant, 2020
- Maryland State Arts Council 2019-2020
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County 2020
- National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship 2017-2019
- The Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta 2018
- Many Voices Project Prize, 2017
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County 2014
Others
- Academy of American Poets Prize
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist
- Anderson Center Residency Award for Outstanding Loft Instructors
- AWP Intro Award
- Bennett Cerf Endowed Prize
- Centrum Writing Studios award
- Denny Prize for Distinction in Writing
- Harry Scherman Writing Award
- Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship (2)
- Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
- Larry Levis Prize
- McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship
- New York Mills Regional Cultural Center Artistic Residency
- Pablo Neruda Prize Finalist (2)
- Wendy Parrish Prize
- Pushcart Prize - Nominated 3 times
- Walt Whitman Award Finalist
