Awards
LITERARY AWARDS
"Whenever a Show Ends, I Have to Google Everything about It," Descant's 2025 Betsy Colquitt Prize
"M.A.S.H, A Cento Game for Poets," 2nd place winner, 2025 Cleaver Visual Poetics Prize, chosen by Kazim Ali
"To Our College Boyfriends," (poem) 2nd Place October Project's annual poetry contest, 2025
Longlisted for the 2022 Palette Poetry's Emerging Poet Prize, judge Safia Elhillo
Rattle Chapbook Poetry Prize 2021 for Imago, Dei
Main Street Rag Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Prize finalist 2018 for Wild Things
“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
Lunch Ticket 2015 Diana Woods Award Finalist for "Tackle Box"
FELLOWSHIPS
Lighthouse Litfest Poetry Fellowship, Runner-Up, selected by Carolyn Forche
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