HONORS & AWARDS

Residency Fellowship at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts

Graves Family Teaching Innovation Fund Award, Phillips Exeter Academy

Finalist for The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Prize in Nonfiction

Winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award

Finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Prize for Tender the River

Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Tender the River

Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award for Tender the River

Runner up for Poetry by The Sea Conference Book Prize for Tender the River

Second Place for New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Award for Tender the River

Winner of the Graves Teaching Award, Phillips Exeter Academy 2020

Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry award by Nimrod International 

Poetry by the Sea Conference Sonnet Crown Contest, Spring 2019

Artist Grant Award, Vermont Studio Center, Spring 2018

Semi-finalist for Miller Williams Prize for collection The Wounded for the Water

Awarded a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Winner of the Iron Horse Review Trifecta Long Poem Prize for poem “Ordeal by Water” 

Winner of the River Styx Micro-Brew-Micro Fiction Award for the poem “This Tune Goes Manly”

Winner of the Brown Excellence in Teaching Award, Phillips Exeter Academy

Poem “Tuggin’” selected for Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s 2013 Common Threads Series 2012

Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner for manuscript Club Icarus, 2012