Book Awards: Winner of the 1998 Permafrost Poetry Chapbook Contest, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for COIL Translation Awards: Awarded a Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language Grant to lead a Catullus Translation Workshop/Reading and Student Poetry Reading at Hendrix University Fellowships and Residency Awards: Fishtrap Fellow, Fishtrap Writers Conference Aspen Writers Conference, Scholarship Squaw Valley Community of Writers Napa Valley Writer's Conference Rockmirth Residency, Eco-arts Abode, Sapello, New Mexico Vermont Studio Center, Writer's Grant (Not Yet Completed) Leighton Studios Residency at Bannff (Not Yet Completed) Artist's Residency at The Red Cinder Creativity Center of Hawaii The Santa Fe Art Institute, Writers Residency