Poet

Publications & Prizes
2018 Press 53 Award for Poetry for The Arrows That Choose Us; 2018 Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers; 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association; 2012 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize for Waiting Room (Hill-Stead Museum); 2008 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Second Place, Southern California Review, for “The Longer My Dog Stops, the More I Am Allowed To Watch”; 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminar, Second Place, judged by Tom Sleigh, for "Cosmography." First-Place, 2004 Maize Short Fiction Contest, Indiana Writers Center, for "Wanting to Stay.”