Awards
LITERARY AWARDS
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"Whenever a Show Ends, I Have to Google Everything about It," Descant's 2025 Betsy Colquitt Prize
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"M.A.S.H, A Cento Game for Poets," 2nd place winner, 2025 Cleaver Visual Poetics Prize, chosen by Kazim Ali
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"To Our College Boyfriends," (poem) 2nd Place October Project's annual poetry contest, 2025
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Longlisted for the 2022 Palette Poetry's Emerging Poet Prize, judge Safia Elhillo
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Rattle Chapbook Poetry Prize 2021 for Imago, Dei
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Main Street Rag Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Prize finalist 2018 for Wild Things
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“What Remains,” honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s May 2015 and Jan/Feb 2016 Emerging Writer's Short Story Award
“Where the Wild Sing,” semi-finalist in Mary Ballard Chapbook Prize Casey Shay Press 2015
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Lunch Ticket 2015 Diana Woods Award Finalist for "Tackle Box"
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FELLOWSHIPS
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Lighthouse Litfest Poetry Fellowship, Runner-Up, selected by Carolyn Forche
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TEACHING AWARDS
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Selected by Patricia Spears Jones to co-faciliate her 2025 Across Generations: Creating New Democratic Vistas project sponsored by an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship
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SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly & Creative Activities, 2023
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Award for Innovative eLearning Technology from the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), 2018
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SUNY Traveling Lecturer Award, Russia Programs Network, Spring 2017
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TCC Excellence in Teaching, Monroe Community College, Spring 2017
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Open SUNY COTE Ambassador, Spring 2017
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Award for Professional Leave for the Advancement of the College, Spring 2016
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SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
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