Poet
Publications & Prizes
A fine yellow dust (2021) Winner, Midwest Book Award; Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award; First Finalist, Poetry Society of Virginia North American Book Award; Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Book Award.
Nothing but the blood (2018) Winner, Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry; Silver Medal Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY); Finalist, Midwest Book Award.
Requiem, Rwanda (2015) Finalist, Lascaux Poetry Prize.
Crossing the ladder of sun (2004) Winner, Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry.
Learning to live in the world: Earth poems by William Stafford (1994) Winner, Hungry Mind Books of Distinction Award.
Celestial bodies (2016) Winner, Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Competition; Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award.