Recognition for Chapbooks

CutBank Annual Chapbook Competition 2020. Semi-Finalist. “Ruby Slippers for Gretel.”

Bright Hills Press 2018 Chapbook Competition. Finalist. “Cashmere Snow.”

Wingless Dreamer 2018 Chapbook Competition. Top 50 Finalist. “Cashmere Snow.”

Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award 2018. Semi-Finalist. “Cashmere Snow.” (Formerly “Not A Candy House.”)

Quill’s Edge Press Chapbook Competition 2018. Semi-Finalist. “Not a Candy House.” (Later updated to “Cashmere Snow.”)

Encircle Publications Chapbook Competition 2017. First Place. “Breaking Newton’s Laws.”

 Minerva Rising Chapbook Competition 2016. Finalist. “Breaking Newton’s Laws.”

 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition 2015. Honorable Mention. “Breaking Newton’s Laws” Chapbook.

 Indian Paintbrush Chapbook Competition 2015. Top 12 Finalist. “Breaking Newton’s Laws” Chapbook.

 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition 2014. Finalist. “Ossory Wolves” Chapbook.

Recognition for Individual Poems

 2021 “Reunion: The Dallas Review” Nomination for Best of the Net for “Venus Wishing For More Than A Half Shell.”

2019 Finalist for Best of the Net. Sundress Publications. For “Confiteor 1” from “The Coil.”

2019 “The Coil.” Nomination for Best of the Net. “Confiteor 1” one of six nominees for the award. (See above. Won the finalist spot.)

2019 The 49th New Millennium Writing Awards. Honorable Mention. “Barefoot.”

2019 Wingless Dreamer. Top 12 Finalist/Honorable Mention of 1,500 entries. “The Beating of Wings.”

2018 The 64 Best Poets of 2018. The Halcyone. “Curriculum Vitae” and “Hands.” 

2018 Finalist in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts Joy Harjo Poetry Contest. Top 20 finalist of over 900 entrants. “Obscurantism.”

2018 Second Prize in the 2018 Luminaire Award for Best Poetry. “Confiteor 2.” Alternating Current.

2018 Finalist the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest. Poem published in Sunbeams Anthology. “Witching Hour.”

2017 Nomination for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. “Dementia.” Nominated by Encircle Publications.

2015 Atlantis Award / Poet’s Billow. Finalist. Winter 2015. “The Moment Before.”

http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/2015-atlantis-award/

http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/contributors/2015-contributors/

 2015 Pangaea Prize / Poet’s Billow. Finalist. Spring 2015. “First Night.”

http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/2015-pangaea-prize/everything-i-know-about-white/

http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/contributors/2015-contributors/

 2014 Atlantis Award / Poet’s Billow. Semi-Finalist. Fall 2014. “Cardiac Care Unit,” “Flatline,” “Dear Lifeguard,” “Birth Cloud,” “Cancer Diagnosis,” “Lauds.”

http://thepoetsbillow.org/2014/12/17/announcing-the-2014-atlantis-award-winner/

Cultural Center of Cape Cod 2014 National Poetry Competition. Finalist. Fall 2014. “Letting Go: A Cento,” “This is not a Poem,” “Mass Starfish Die Off, Off the Pacific Coast.”

 Whispering Prairie Press Annual Writing Contest. Honorable Mention. Fall 2014. “Letting Go: A Cento.”

 California State Poetry Society Annual Contest. Honorable Mention. Spring 2008. “Convent Confessions.”

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