2024 Individual Artist Grant from NYSCA for Disability Poetics

2023 5th Annual Halloween Horror Haiku Contest  Winner 

2023 Igbo Landing II, third place in Rhysling Awards for long poems

2022 Grandmaster of Fantastic Poetry (SFPA)

2022 Individual Artist Grant from New York State Council on the Arts

2021 Elgin Award for Otherwheres

 2021 and 2020 Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

3 Best of the Net Nominations 2021, 6 Rhysling Award Nominations, 3 Pushcart Prize Nominations 2019, 2021, Iron Horse Review, Photofinish contest winner, 2016, 2015 Bryant-Lisembee Editor's Prize, 2015 short poem Science Fiction Poetry Association Award, Poets Respond 2015, 2016; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry, Ragdale U.S.-Africa Fellowship, Artists Crossroads Grant, Hurston Wright writers scholarship, Walker Foundation Scholarship to Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Poet-in-Residence, Chautauqua Institution, Writer's Digest Book Award, Cave Canem Fellow. Artist Crossroads Grant from The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes; poet in residence at The Chatauqua Institute; 2015 Word Works Washington Prize finalist; Barnard New Women Poets Series finalist, Open Voice finalist, MacDonald's Black Literary Achievement Award finalist; Walt Whitman Award finalist; and Awardee in Non-rhyming Poetry, Writer's Digest competition