Winner of the 2008 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook Award Finalist in the Spire Spring 2008 Poetry Chapbook Contest Nominated for Sundress's Best of the Net by poeticdiversity for my short story “Le Thé Dansant,” 2007 Winner of the 2007 Jewel by the Bay poetry competition sponsored by the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, judged by Susan Terris Third Place for Poetry in The Pedestal Magazine's 2006 Pedestal Readers' Awards for “The Underwater Hospital” Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Triplopia for my poem “Tiresias,” November 2006 Winner of Triplopia's 2006 Best of the Best Competition (open only to winning poems from other contests) for “Tiresias” Second Runner-Up in poeticdiversity's Prose Contest 2006 for my very short story “Le Thé Dansant” Third Prize in Artists Embassy International's Dancing Poetry Contest for my poem entitled “Haditha”, 2006 Second Place for Poetry in The Pedestal Magazine's 2005 Pedestal Readers' Awards for “The Maiden Aunts” Third Prize in the Bay Area Poets Coalition Contest 26 for my poem “Miserere Missouri,” 2006 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by So to Speak for my nonfiction story “The Wild Boar Baby,” December 2005 First Honorable Mention in the Bay Area Poets Coalition Contest 25 for a poem co-authored with Hew Wolff entitled “What Are Your Line Breaks Doing For You?”, 2005 Third Prize in Artists Embassy International's Dancing Poetry Contest for my poem entitled “Abuelita (Grandmother)”, 2004 Finalist in the Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Contest, 2004 The Marguerite Rush Lerner Award for outstanding creative writing by a Yale medical student, 1992, for a collection of short stories