Awards and Prizes

  • 2011 Jack Straw Productions Writing Program Fellow, Seattle, WA.
  • Poetry manuscript, Summer, Posthumous, chosen as a finalist for the 2009 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the 2010 University of Wisconsin Brittingham and Pollak Prizes, and 2010 and 2011 Green Rose Prize.
  • 2009 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award for Lamp of Letters, September, 2009.
  • Poetry nominated for reprint in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses by the Board of Contributing Editors, February, 2009.
  • "When Traveling On Airplanes I Always Think of God" selected for Verse Daily, www.versedaily.com, September 1, 2008.
  • Tom Pier Poetry Prize in Allied Arts of Yakima Valley 14th Annual Juried Poetry Reading for "Animal Heaven," "Curriculum Vitae" and "How Flatterers Must Be Shunned," April 13, 2008.
  • "Write Your Own Myth: World Culture and Imaginative Narrative Writing." selected by the AWP Pedagogy Team to be published in Best of the 2007 Pedagogy Papers online, Associated Writers and Writing Programs, March 2007.
  • 2006 CWU College of Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Teaching Project Award for course to be taught in Spring 2006 with Art Professor Brian Goeltzenleuchter, "Hybrids and Collaborations."
  • 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition Finalist for poetry manuscript, Lamp of Letters .
  • 2006 Summer Literary Seminars-Kenya Fellowship Award, October 2006.
  • 2005 Judge, State of Washington, Artist Trust Literary Fellowship Panel, Seattle, WA.
  • 2001-2002 Emerging Writer Lectureship, Gettysburg College; Gettysburg, PA.
  • Residency Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July-August 2001.
  • 2000 Bluestem Poetry Award, selected by Lucia Perillo, Bluestem Press (Emporia State University, KS).
  • Writer’s Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Oct. 2000-May 2001.
  • Poems "Heartland Cafe" and "Plato Drives His Mercury North from Omaha" each nominated for a Pushcart Prize, January 2000.
  • Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Dec. 1999-Jan. 2000.
  • The Nebraska Review Award in Poetry, 1999.
  • AWP Poetry Fellowship, Prague Summer Seminars, Charles University, Prague, 1999.
  • Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, English
  • Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998-99.
  • Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 1996-1998.
  • Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry, 1995-1996.
  • Grolier Poetry Prize, 1995.

    Curriculum vitae