Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
2022 Cider Press Review Book Award
2021 CIPA Gold Medal for The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020)
2020 Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry
2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition
2017 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest
2016 Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize
2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize
2014 featured juried poet at Houston Poetry Fest
2012 The “Piccolo in Your Pocket” Contest from the Alaska Flute Studies Center
2010 Named one of 33 "Emerging Creative Minds" by SOFI Magazine
2008 Portlandia Chapbook Prize
2008 and 2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Awards
Six Pushcart Prize nominations
Five Best of the Net nominations
Placed in the following: Finalist for Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention for 2023 and Finalist for 2021 and 2020 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize from Cutthroat; Finalist for 2019 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry from New Letters; Finalist for 2019 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Contest from Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Finalist for 2019 Construction Literary Magazine Poetry Contest; Honroable Mention for 2019 Passager Journal Poetry Contest; Runner-up for 2019 Jacar Press Full-Length Manuscript Competition; Finalist for 2019 Gold Wake Press Open Reading Period; 2019 Jacar Press Chapbook Competition; 2018 Headway Quarterly’s Inaugural Writing Contest; Finalist for 2017 Virginia Society of Poetry Book Prize (for The Treasures That Prevail); Long-listed for 2017 Julie Suk Book Award (for American Sentencing); Long-listed for 2017 Lascaux Book Prize (for American Sentencing); 2017 New Millennium Competition #44; 2017 Locked Horn Press Poetry Prize; 2017 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition; 2017 Brittany Noakes and Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry prizes; 2017 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize; 2016 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize; 2015 Atlantis Award from The Poet's Billow; 2010 Knight poetry prize; 2009 Patricia Dobler, Consequence Magazine and Earth Vision prizes; 1998 River Styx Poetry Prize.
For food and travel writing, first place in the Green Eyeshade/Society of Professional Journalists, Association of Food Journalists and North American Travel Journalists Association, and second place in the Les Dames d'Escoffier MFK Fisher Awards for Culinary Writing in the Cookbook category for Mango. From the Tip of My Tongue won "Best Woman Cookbook in the USA" from the World Gourmand Awards and came in third for Best in the World.