Honors and Awards

2016 Winner of Arcadia’s Dead Bison Editor’s Prize in Poetry ($1000) for “Leagues” 
2015 Long Listed for “Santiago Street” in Poetry International Prize
2013 Finalist for Best of the Net 2013, Sundress Publications (selected by Beth Couture)
2013 Nominee for Best of the Net 2013 (by Coal Hill Review), Sundress Publications
2012 Nominee for Best New Poets 2012 (by Arizona State University Creative Writing Program)
2011 Finalist (one of twelve), Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition, Coal Hill Review, for Fissures in the Shallows (selected by Michael Simms)
2011 Runner-up, Pocataligo Poetry Contest ($250), Yemassee Journal (selected by Ray McManus)
2011 Nominee for Best New Poets 2011 (by Arizona State University Creative Writing Program)
2010 First place, Katharine C. Turner Prize, Academy of American Poets, for “Danse Macabre” (selected by Catherine Barnett)
2007 “Best Work in Poetry,” Vereen Bell Memorial Award in Creative Writing, Davidson College (selected by Eleanor Wilner)
2007 First place, Anthony Abbott Writing Competition, Charlotte Writers’ Club
2004 Honorable Mention, Anthony Abbott Writing Competition, Charlotte Writers’ Club
2003-7 Patricia Cornwell Scholar in Writing ($10,000 per year), Davidson College