Prize Winner:
Winner of the 2018 Eyelands Book Award (Greece) for an unpublished poetry book (for Beyond That Hill I Gather)
Winner of the Red Berry Editions 2015 Broadside Contest (for the poem “A Proven Theory”)
Winner of the 2012 Revolution House Flash Fiction Contest (for the story “The Package”)
Finalist:
Semifinalist, 2009 Dana Awards (for the novel Moto Girl)
Finalist, 2012 Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
Semifinalist, 2013 Frost Place Chapbook Fellowship
Finalist, 2012 Midwest Writing Center Contest
Finalist, Louisville Literary Arts’ 2014 Writer’s Block/Memorious Poetry Contest
Finalist, 2014 Sow’s Ear Poetry Competition
Semifinalist, 2015 Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest
Finalist, Lascaux Prize in Poetry 2015
Finalist, 2015 Blue Light Press Chapbook Competition
Finalist, Island Verse’s 2017 Lily’s Pond Poetry Chapbook Prize
Finalist in the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition
Honorable mention, 2017 Quercus Review Press Fall Poetry Book Award