2026 Nomination for Best Spiritual Literature Anthology: “The Gretel Apocrypha,” The Illanot Review 29 (Fall-Winter 2025).

2025 Nomination for Pushcart Prize: “Transient: Tanka for the Deep Ellum Squatters,” in Ribbons 21.2 (Fall/Winter 2025), 66.

2025 Third Place for the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine: “Hold it Again to the Light,” The Hippocrates Prize: Winning and Commended Poems (Hippocrates Press, 2025).

2025 Winner of The Gylys Villanelle Prize: “The Knife, The Throat,” Poetry by the Sea (2024).

2023 Reader’s Choice Award (Top 10) by International Literary Seminars (ILS): “The Gretel Apocrypha.”

2022 Sonnet Crowns Shortlist for the Kim Bridgeford Memorial Sonnet Contest, Poetry by the Sea: “Oregon Trail: A Very Special Generation.”

2021 Hugh J. Luke Award: “Gretel in the Wilderness,”  Prairie Schooner 95.4 (Winter 2021), pp. 119-122. (Project Muse)

2019 Nomination for the Pushcart Prize: “At the Lost Children’s Memorial Garden” in Fairy Tale Review 15, The Pink Issue (2019), pp. 91-92. (JSTOR)

2017 Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry, Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

2015 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest Honorable Mention: [Milky Way] tanka, Tanka Society of America.

2014 Nomination for Pushcart Prize: “Fables from the Petrified Forest,” Smartish Pace 22 (2014), pp. 104-106.

2014 First Place of the 11th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize: “Fables from the Petrified Forest,” Smartish Pace 22 (2014), pp. 104-106.

2013 First Place San Miguel Writers’ Conference Contest, Poetry Category: “Juanita.”

2012 Second place in Non-rhyming Poetry category of the 81st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition: “Burning the Bodies.”

2012 Honorable Mention in the Maxine and Joseph Cassin Prize for Best MFA Thesis in Poetry Writing: “Codemakers.”

2012 Honorable Mentions in the Eighth Annual Writing Contest for Study Abroad, University of New Orleans: “gifted,” “Postcards for Sebu,” and “Juanita.”

2003 West Chester University Poetry Conference Scholarship.

2003 Edith Garlow Poetry Prize.