Poet
Publications & Prizes
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America; Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry; Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Award; Diode Editions Book Contest; the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry; Towson University Prize for Literature; Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council; Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and Howard Nemerov Poetry Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference; Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.