2024: Five Points Magazine James Dickey Prize for "Parallax" and "Grounds for Dissolution." Fischer Cantor prize from the Telluride Institute for “Polaris.”

2023: New Ohio Review Prize for "Has this happened to you." Honorable mention in MacGuffin Poet Hunt 53 for “Throbber.” Book awards for ONLY: Second Place, Royal Dragonfly Award; Silver Medal, Julie Suk; Longlist finalist, Poetry by the Sea. "Stone Fruit" was Poem of the Week in The Missouri Review,https://missourireview.com/stone-fruit-b... [4]. "War and Peace"  and "Field" featured in The Common with Tommye Blount and others, https://www.thecommononline.org/december... [5].

2022: “At Motel 6 the Night Deedee Died” featured in Verse Daily.  “Second Gratitude” chosen as Poem of the Week and #1 on “Most Read” list for Narrative Magazine The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, Runner up for the Poetry By the Sea book prize.The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, finalist for the Julie Suk book prize.Poetry By the Sea Book Award, Second Place.   

2020: Pablo Neruda Award (Nimrod Journal) for "Blackout" and "Sit with Me," chosen by Kaveh Akbar

2019: Hedgebrook Fellowship, Lascaux Review Flash Fiction prize.

2017-19 Marin County Poet Laureate

2018: CP Cavafy Prize (Poetry International), 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award

2015: Press 53 Award for Poetry, James Hearst Poetry Prize (Jane Hirshfield judged), American Literary Review Fiction prize(Garth Greenwell judged), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writer’s Conference, MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2014: Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place, Constance Rook CNF Prize (Malahat Review).

2013: Inductee, Blair County Arts Foundation for Literary Arts.

2010: God, Seed, Foreword Book of the Year Award and Mass Book Award finalist. All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, Many Mountains Moving Prize, Finalist for the Paterson Prize, and nominated for the Poet’s Prize.

2009: Dark Card, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

2008: Mom’s Canoe, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.