Poet
Publications & Prizes
Winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize from C&R Press. Tennessee WIlliams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Winner of the Black River chapbook competition from Black Lawrence Press. Finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Semi-finalist for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Sundress Publications chapbook competition finalist. Pushcart Prize Nominee. Best of the Net Prize. M.F.A. Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Best New Poets nomination. Fellowships from the J. William Fulbright Program and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. University Fellowship in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University. The Kay Magenheimer Poetry Prize from the University of West Georgia. Finalist for the Wick Poetry Center/Kent State University Press chapbook competition. Two-time finalist for the Agnes Scott College Writer's Festival Award in Poetry.