Gratified to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book was just named a finalist in the Burnside Review Press Book Contest. Congratulations to the winner Larissa Szporluk!
Category Archives: Award
Meek Award Announcement!
The public announcement about this year’s Meek Awards from The Florida Review, in which my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” won for the creative nonfiction category. Thank you Florida Review editors for this honor. I’m especially delighted because I’ve never submitted my nonfiction for any awards, and to have received this without entering for it means so much to me. An added jolt of very welcome good creative nonfiction energy!
My Lyric Essay “Root That Mountain” Presented with the Meek Award from The Florida Review!
I’m thrilled to learn that my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” has been awarded the 2018 Meek Award for Creative Nonfiction from The Florida Review. This award recognizes the best non-contest, non-solicited work published by the journal in 2018. Thank you Lisa Roney and the rest of The Florida Review editors and staff for this honor!
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize Again!
I’m thrilled to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize again this year. It was a dream come true to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
“Gullier” a semi-finalist for The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
Delighted to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book, “Gullier,” was selected as a semi-finalist in The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. And huge congratulations to the winner Katie Condon and the other runners up and finalists!
2 Poetry Book Manuscripts Recognized by Conduit’s Minds on Fire Book Prize
Delighted to learn that my poetry book manuscript was a semi-finalist in Conduit‘s Minds on Fire Book Prize…and the collaborative poetry book manuscript I wrote with Dustin Nightingale was a finalist!
Thank you Conduit Magazine, and congratulations to the winner Jeffrey Morgan!
My Second Poetry Book Manuscript is a Semifinalist for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize!
Lovely to learn that my second poetry book manuscript was a semifinalist for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from The University of Utah Press. Congratulations to the winner Lindsay Lusby!
I’ve Been Awarded a Ragdale Residency Fellowship for Next Spring!
Holy. Moly. I’ve been awarded a residency at Ragdale for next spring, fully funded with a fellowship!!! I’d never applied to do any residency before being invited to apply to this one, and wow I never expected all this. Thank you Jeffrey Meeuwsen, Amy Sinclair, Regin Igloria, and the Curational Board, selection committee, & staff at Ragdale Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I’m honored and elated. Having this to look forward to will certainly help keep things glowing when winter winds come a-blowing.
Finalist for Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry!
Lovely to return from vacation to the news that my second poetry book manuscript was a finalist for Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry judged by Ocean Vuong. Congratulations to the winner Chad Bennett. Also, congratulations to my fellow finalist and fellow Indiana University MFA Nathaniel Perry!
2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award
Wednesday evening I had the honor and delight to receive a 2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award for being an outstanding educator at SUNY Oswego. Thank you to Richard Kolenda, Jacob Gardner, and most of all to my students!
