Awards & Recognition

2024

• The Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry (Finalist, University of Wisconsin)

2023

• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow
• Poetry of Science and Art Contest II (Second place, Energy Frontier Research Center, Department of Energy; in collaboration with The Center for Catalysis in Biomimetic Confinement)

2021

• Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Finalist, Nimrod International Journal)

2020

• Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize (Winner)

• Jean Chimsky Poetry Prize (Winner, University of Cincinnati Department of English) 

• Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize (Winner)

2019

• American Literary Review Poetry Prize (Finalist) 

• Best of the Net (Nomination, Split Rock Review)

• Poetry Prize, ‘Doubt’ Issue (Winner, Sonora Review)

• All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award (Western Michigan University) 

• Erskine J. Poetry Prize (Finalist, Smartish Pace)

2018

• Pushcart Prize (Nomination, Split Rock Review)

• Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize (Longlist)

• Student Writing Prize (Winner, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine)

• Winter Contest (Finalist, Columbia Journal)

2017

• Peseroff Prize in Poetry (Finalist, Breakwater Review)

• Wabash Prize in Poetry (Finalist, Sycamore Review)

• Allison Joseph Poetry Prize (Winner, Crab Orchard Review)

2016

• Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Scholarship (Winner)

• Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Contest (Finalist)

2015

• Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts (Winner)

• Jim Cash Creative Writing Scholarship (Winner)

• Annie Balocating Prize in Poetry (Winner)

• Marcia E. Platt & Douglas L. Ruble Creative Writing Scholarship (Winner)

• Michigan State University Creative Writing Prize in Poetry (Winner)

• Michigan State University Creative Writing Prize in Drama (Winner)