Gold Medal for Poetry, e-Lit Book Awards 2010  

Pushcart Prize nomination for “To Will:” from Redactions: Poetry & Poetics 2010

Pushcart Prize nomination for “Blood, Glass, Pigeons in the Bathtub” from Turtle Ink Press 2009

Pushcart Prize nomination for “Boys Leave the Farm at Dawn to Fight in the Civil War” from Turtle Ink Press 2009

Pushcart Prize nomination for “Moussaoui’s Mother” from Turtle Ink Press 2009

Residency as Poet in the Schools for the U.S. Poet Laureate Project, Literacy Through Creative Expression 2006

The Joyce Carol Oates Award for the best group of poems by a graduate student in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University 2005

Chancellor's Award for Public Service for my work teaching in the Creative Writing in the Community course at Syracuse University 2005

Creative Writing Fellowship, Syracuse University 2001 – 2002

Full Tuition Scholarships, Syracuse University 2001 – 2005

Fellowships from Columbia University's and New York University's MFA Programs for Creative Writing in Poetry 1997

Creative Writing Award from the Palmer Museum of Art for Poetry 1996