Winner of the X.J. Kennedy Prize for Poetry for The Book of Drought, 2023, selected by former Inaugural Poet Laureate Richard Blanco.

Winner of the 2014 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Prize for Poetry.

First Prize, Terrain.org’s 4th Annual Contest in Poetry, 2013.

First Place for Poetry in the 2023 Utah Original Writing Competition from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums.

Winner of the Peatsmoke Summer Poetry Contest, 2023.

First Place: Letter Review Prize for Poetry, 2023.

Milton Kessler Memorial Prize in Poetry from Harpur Palate magazine, 2022.

15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction for my book Accidental Gardens from Artists of Utah Magazine, 2022.

Winner of the Artists of Utah Book Award for Poetry for The Book of Sharks, 2019.

2-Time Winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry, Utah Center for the Book, Weather Report, 2007, and Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts, 2004.

Winner of the 2005 Frank Cat Press Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition.

Winner of The National Poetry Review’s 2004 Chapbook Prize.

Winner, 2002 Pinyon Press Poetry Book Competition, for Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts.

Winner, 2002 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize.