Recent & Selected Awards/Recognitions

• 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