Poetry Awards 

Crestone Wayfarer Award, 2024 

Word Works, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, Deconstructing the Witch Manuscript. Semi-Finalist, 2024  

Several Pushcart Nomination, 2021, 2024

Karen Chamberlain Award for Lifetime Achievement in Colorado Poetry, 2021

46th New Millennium Writing Awards. Honorable Mention, 2018

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, International Merit

Award Winner, 2017  

Michael Adams Poetry Prize: Finalist, 2017

New Guard Review Knightville Poetry Contest: Semi-finalist, 2017

Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, 2016

Blue Light: Semi-finalist, Manuscript, 2016

Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest: Semi-finalist 2016

Hunger Mountain Ruth Stone Prize: Runner-up, 2016

Urge: Jewish Currents (Alexander and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition,

Finalist, 2016

May Swenson:  Manuscript Finalist, 2015

BorderSenses Contest: Third Place, 2015

Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize:  Semi-Finalist, 2015

Atlanta Review International Publication Prize Winner: "Xoxocotlan Cemetery" , 2014

Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, Semi -finalist, Motheresque manuscript, 2014

Nimrod International Journal Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Semifinalist, "What Words for God", 2014

Rosebud, William Stafford Award for Poetry: "Hannah's Self Portrait", 2014

Main Street Rag: Poetry Book Award, Runner-up, and Publication, 2013 

Atlanta Review: 2013 Poetry International Poetry Competition Finalist