| 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 |