Awards and Nominations

Winner, Tebot Bach Clockwise Poetry Chapbook Competition: A Benign Sort of Cannibalism

Quarter Finalist, Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize (2014)

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2013), Essay: “Sea Cucumbers and Flying Solo”

Runner Up: Recombinant Loves, Main Street Rag Annual Chapbook Contest (2012)

Quarterly Prize (Fall 2012), "Silk Road Sonnet" The Lyric

Awarded Lindenwood LCIE Outstanding Alum Award (September 10, 2015)