• Wandering Aengus Press Book Award, Wandering Aengus Press, 2021
• Jack Straw Fellowship, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 2019
• Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, Floating Bridge Press, 2015
• Paula Jones Gardiner Memorial Award, Floating Bridge Review, for the poem “Personal Ad #1 (Pairs Only Matter in Poker)” chosen by Kelli Russell Agodon, 2013
• Twitter Fiction Contest, Superstition Review, 2012
• Flash Fiction Prize, Blue Earth Review, for the flash piece “Autobiography, Autobiography” chosen by Roger Sheffers, 2011
• Gulf Stream Poetry Award, Gulf Stream, for the poem “Boil” chosen by Denise Duhamel, 2011
• Artsmith Literary Award, Artsmith, for the poem “Returning Home” chosen by Tina Schumann, 2011
• Picture Worth 500 Words Contest, Issue 19, Tattoo Highway, for the poem “Fishing in the Time Stream,” 2009
• George Henry Bridgman Poetry Prize Hamline University, for the poem “Cello as Lover,” 2001
• Eliza A. Drew Prize in English for Best Short Story Hamline University, for the story “Origin of the Rainbow,” 2001

FINALIST

• Jake Adam York Prize, Copper Nickel, 2020
• Washington State Book Award for Poetry (post-publication), Blood Song, 2017
• Coil Book Award (post-publication), A Single Throat Opens, 2017
• Coil Book Award (post-publication), Blood Song, 2017
• The Russell Prize, Two Sylvias Press, 2014
• Zone 3 First Book Prize, Zone 3 Press, 2014
• Fairy Tale Review Poetry Contest, Fairy Tale Review, 2014
• Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, Floating Bridge Press, 2014
• Sonora Review Poetry Contest, Sonora Revew, 2014
• Four Way Books Levis Prize, Four Way Books, 2013
• OSU/The Journal Award for Poetry, Ohio State University Press, 2013
• Cream City Review Annual Poetry Contest, cream city review, 2013
• Four Way Books Intro Prize, Four Way Books, 2012
• Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize Water~Stone Review, 2012
• Third Coast Poetry Prize, Third Coast, 2012
• Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, Crab Creek Review, 2011
• Many Mountains Moving Poetry Prize, Many Mountains Moving, 2011
• Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest, Slapering Hol Press, 2011
• 49th Parallel Award, Bellingham Review, 2011
• Knightville Poetry Contest, The New Guard Literary Review, 2010
• Artsmith Literary Award, Artsmith, 2009
• New Works Competition, Richard Hugo House, chosen by Brian Turner, 2009
• Crab Breek Review Poetry Contest, Crab Creek Review, 2008
• Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, Water~Stone Review, 2005
• Children’s Fiction Contest, Writer’s Digest, 2001

SEMI-FINALIST

• Julie Suk Award (post-publication), Blood Song, 2017
• Crab Orchard Series Open Book Competition, Southern Illinois University Press, 2014
• Cutbank Chapbook Contest, Cutbank, 2013
• Zone 3 First Book Prize, Zone 3 Press, 2012
• Miller Williams Poetry Prize, University of Arkansas Press, 2011
• Lyric Family Poetry Prize, Lyric Review, 2009