Poet

Publications & Prizes
Selected Arts Grants, Awards, and Residencies:
• Mallard Island residency. The Oberholtzer Foundation. August 2014.
• Mallard Island Individual Artist residency. The Oberholtzer Foundation. July 2013.
• Tofte Lake Center. Individual Artist Residency. June 2013.
• Artist Initiative grant. Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. 2013.
• Cambria Eisteddfod poetry contest. Finalist. Sponsored by the League of Minnesota Poets and the Blue Earth County Historical Society. June 2012.
• Madeline Island Center for the Arts. Writing Residency. July 2012.
• Artists Initiative grant. Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Finalist. 2011.
• Cambria Eisteddfod poetry contest. Finalist. Sponsored by the League of Minnesota Poets and the Blue Earth County Historical Society. June 2011.
• Artists Initiative grant. Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Finalist. 2010.
• Anderson Center for the Arts. Residency. October 2009.
• Minnesota Women’s Press Changemakers Award. December 24, 2008.
• Loft/McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers. Finalist. 2008.
• Artists Initiative grant. Minnesota State Arts Board. 2008.
• “What Light” poetry winner. mnartists.org. May 2007.
• Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Residency. June 2005.
• Honorable mention. Family Housing Fund Poetry Contest. August 2004.
• Jerome/SASE Fellowship finalist. September 2002.
• Writer-in-Residence. Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. 2002-2003.
• SASE 6th Annual Poetry contest. Honorable mention. Spring 2002.
• Lake Superior Writer’s contest. Poetry winner. January 2002.
• Jerome/SASE Fellowship finalist. September 2001.