Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
2024 National Poetry Series finalist
2024 Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize
2022 Cider Press Review Book Award
2021 CIPA Gold Medal for The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020)
2020 Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry
2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition
2017 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest
2016 Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize
2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize
2014 featured juried poet at Houston Poetry Fest
2012 The “Piccolo in Your Pocket” Contest from the Alaska Flute Studies Center
2010 Named one of 33 "Emerging Creative Minds" by SOFI Magazine
2008 Portlandia Chapbook Prize
2008 and 2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Awards
Six Pushcart Prize nominations
Five Best of the Net nominations
Placed in the following: 2024 Beullah Rose Poetry Competition from Smartish Pace; semi-finalist in the 2024 Poet Hunt 29 from The MacGuffin; Honorable Mention in the 2023 inaugural Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention (2023), Finalist ( 2021), and Finalist (2020) in the Joy Harjo Poetry prizes from Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts; Short List (2024) and Longlist (2021) in the Alpine Fellowship for Poetry; Finalist in the 2021 Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize; Finalist in the 2019 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry from New Letters; Finalist in the 2019 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Contest from Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Finalist in the 2019 Construction Literary Magazine Poetry Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2019 Passager Journal Poetry Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2018 Headway Quarterly’s Inaugural Writing Contest; Finalist in the 44th New Millennium Awards; Runner-Up in The Atlantis Poetry Award; Finalist in the Bermuda Triangle Prize; Semi-Finalist in the 2017 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize; Second and Third Places in two Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competitions; Third Prize and Finalist in two River Styx International Poetry Prizes; Second Place and Finalist in two Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prizes; Finalist in the 2009 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award; Semi-Finalist in the 1998 and 1999 Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prizes; and others.
For food and travel writing, first place in the Green Eyeshade/Society of Professional Journalists, Association of Food Journalists and North American Travel Journalists Association, and second place in the Les Dames d'Escoffier MFK Fisher Awards for Culinary Writing in the Cookbook category for Mango. From the Tip of My Tongue won "Best Woman Cookbook in the USA" from the World Gourmand Awards and came in third for Best in the World.