Zell Fellowship, University of Michigan 2009-10 Writing Fellow, Virginia Center for the Arts 2009 Cave Canem Scholar, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley 2009 Artist in Residence, The Austin Project 2008-09 Artist in Residence, Alma de Mujer 2008 Writer in Residence, Soul Mountain Writers Colony 2008 James Cody Scholar, James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts, Poetry at Round Top Festival 2008 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, for Where the Apple Falls: Poetry 2006 Winner, National Best Book of Poetry by a SGL Black Poet, Urban Spectrum & 2006 Runner Up, National Best Poetry Book, Urban Spectrum, for Where the Apple Falls: Poetry Winner, Best Anthology, Urban Spectrum, for Best Black Women’s Erotica 2 2003 Fellow, Cave Canem African American Poetry Workshop 2002-06 Winner, Lesbian Poetry Award, Astraea Foundation 2002 Finalist, Lesbian Poetry Award, Astraea Foundation 2000 Poetry ‘96 Award, San Francisco Bay Guardian 1996 Poet’s Choice Award, National Association of Pen Women, Portland Pen 1996 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, H.M., North Carolina Writer’s Network 1995 Poet Laureate, University of California 1994 Emily Chamberlain Cooke Award for Poetry, University of California 1994