Poet

Publications & Prizes
2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry;
2011 Tor House Prize for Poetry;
2011 Third Coast Poetry Contest;
2010 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, University of Utah Press;
2010 49th Parallel Poetry Award, Bellingham Review;
2010 Mérida Fellowship Award, U.S. Poets in Mexico;
2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize;
2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale;
2008 Fourth-Ever Poetry Contest, Black Warrior Review;
2008 Poetry Award, The Ledge;
2008 Grand Prize, The Taste ‘Test, Virginia Arts of the Book Center;
2008 Poetry Prize, Ellipsis