Honors and Awards

Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, 2021

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, (Judges: Camille T. Dungy and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson), Second Place, 2021

Nautilus Book Award, Silver, 2020

Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets (Judge: Li-Young Lee), 2019

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, 2019

Bread Loaf Orion, Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, 2017

Lenfest Summer Research Grant, Washington & Lee University, 2016, 2014, 2013

ACS Blended Learning Grant: Food Systems, 2014

Flying Trout Press Award 2012

Dirtcakes Poetry Award, 2011 For international writers and artists to illuminate a shared global humanity by exploring diverse concepts of poverty, hunger, education, family, gender, and work as suggested by the UN Millennium Development Goals to end extreme poverty by 2015      

UCI Humanities Center International Travel Grant, 2008

Fellowship, Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, 2008