Teaching Commendations/Awards
2014 Olive B. O’Connor Teaching Fellowship, Colgate University, Finalist
2011 UH Teaching Excellence Award: First-Year Composition, Commended Finalist
2007 UH Graduate Teaching Fellowship (renewable: 2007-2012)
Reviews of my Book, Chapbooks, & other work
2017 Publisher’s Weekly – review of In One Version of the Story
2017 Wittenberg Torch – review of colloquium lecture/reading, Springfield, OH
2017 “Tiger Media Network” – review of residency and reading, Hays, KS
2017 So Crazy it Just Might Work Podcast – “Idea #5” episode utilizes my essay, “Three Suggestions for Campus Protest”
2017 Valparaiso Poetry Review – “Recommended New Book” (In One Version of the Story)
2013 Gigantic Sequins – review of Casual Insomniac
2012 The Review Review – review of poems appearing in Iron Horse Literary Journal
2012 Oh Lighthouse – reviews of poems appearing in minnesota review
2011 “Amorakhuey.net” – review of A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs
Recognition for Book Manuscript
2015 New Issues Press, Editor’s Choice (*included publication)
2015 Sawtooth Prize, Ahsahta Press: Finalist
2014 Hudson Prize in Poetry, Black Lawrence Press: Finalist/Runner-Up
2014 YesYes Press Prize in Poetry: Finalist
2014 Field Prize in Poetry, Oberlin College Press: Finalist
2014 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize: Finalist
2014 Joanna Cargill Award, Coconut Press: Honorable Mention
2014 Poets Out Loud Book Prize, Fordham University Press: Finalist
2014 Crab Orchard Book Series: Finalist
2014 Fence Modern Poets Series: Honored Entrant/Finalist
2014 Barrow Street Poetry Prize: Finalist
2013 Phillip Levine Prize in Poetry, Anhinga: Semi-Finalist
2013 Robert Dana Prize, Anhinga: Finalist
2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry, University of Colorado Press: Finalist
2013 Field Prize in Poetry, Oberlin College Press: Finalist
2013 Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry, University of Wisconsin: Semi-Finalist
2012 Phillip Levine Prize in Poetry, Anhinga: Short-List/Finalist (Judge: Cornelius Eady)
Other Awards and Recognition
2015 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Tuition Scholarship: Nominee
2014 Best New Poets 2014 Selection
2014 University of Wisconsin Halls/Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship, Finalist
2014 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Residency Fellowship Semifinalist
2014 Red Hen Poetry Award: Finalist
2012 Best New Poets 2012 Selection
2012 Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry
2012 InPrint Fellowship
2011 Bateau Press “Boom Chapbook Contest,” Winner
2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, Winner
2011 Pushcart Prize Nomination (six poems nominated)
2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Poetry Prize
2011 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Residency Fellowship Semifinalist
2011 Carson McCullers Center, “Smith Writing Fellowship” First Runner-Up
2011 UH Dissertation Completion Grant, C.L.A.S.S., CWP Nominee
2010 Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, Scholarship Award
2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Poetry Prize
2008 Wildacres Retreat, NC, Residency Fellowship
2008 Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, AR, Residency Fellowship
2007 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellowship
2003 New Letters Poetry Prize, First Runner-Up (Judge: Albert Goldbarth)
2003 Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Award (Academy of American Poets)
2003 University of California “Poet Laureate” Award: Honorable Mention
1999 Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, Wittenberg University
1999 Ostrum Endowed Award for Expository Writing, Wittenberg University
1999 University Poetry Award, Wittenberg University