The Lascaux Review Poetry Prize

"Song", Winner, 2025​

The Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize

"Sometime in the Late Age of a Long Marriage", Winner, 2022

Judge Ellen Bass wrote: "This poem has such genuine tenderness. Sentiment without sentimentality. The love is palpable--between the man and woman and from the daughter who is able to look at them so clearly, a true poet's eye. I care about these people. That's a lot for a poem to accomplish."

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The Kelsay Books Women's Poetry Contest

"Raising Glaciers", Winner, 2022

Judge Katie Manning wrote, “I love this poem’s insistence on hope in the face of environmental loss.”

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Lois Cranston Memorial Prize, CALYX

"There Is No Sound in Space", ​Second Runner Up, 2025

Judge Ellen Bass wrote: "This poem skillfully plants the very specific grief of a parent into the vastness of the universe. The poem creates the reality of how singular our own suffering is in hugeness of space. And then, at the end, joins the personal with the literally universal, proposing that if there were sound in space "we might hear wind/and wailing." And goes on to imagine space as a desert and "the sting [of loose sand] against my shins./A wind with small teeth." A precise and haunting image."

Nominations

​Best of the Net Nominations

• "In a Hard Year, I Watch My Son Pretend to Drown", Whale Road Review

• "A Thing I Can't Find Words for Lately", Yellow Arrow

• "My Mother Suggests a Tranquilizer", Literary Mama

• "Tammi Calls from Walmart", Anti-Heroin Chic

• "Amanita Phalloides", Sheila-Na-Gig Online

• "A Rock Is a Rock Is a Rock", Whale Road Review 
• "Preop", Sheila-Na-Gig Online

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Pushcart Nominations

• "Sometime in the Late Age of a Long Marriage", The Comstock Review

• "The Story They are Telling Now," Kelsay Books

• "Amanita Phalloides", Sheila-Na-Gig Online

• "Preop", Sheila-Na-Gig Online

• Pushcart Honorable Mention: "You Can't Even Remember What I'm Trying to Forget", The Threepenny Review

Editor's Choice Award, Sheila-Na-Gig

• The Atlantis Award, the poet's billow, winner, 2023

  • "She Says Her Husband Doesn't Want to See Her Pour Herself into a Black Hole", Winner, 

• Editor's Choice Award, Sheila-Na-Gig, winner 2022

  • "Amanita Phalloides" 

• Sheila-Na-Gig Spring Poetry Prize, winner, 2021

  • "Expanse, Immensity, Collapse"  and "Preop"

Finalist & Honorable Mentions

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• "There's the Sky and She Isn't Empty", NORward Prize, New Ohio Review, Finalist, 2026 

• "Scientists Determine Time Perception Varies Between Animals", Sweet Lit Poetry Contest, Finalist. 2023

• "RED", 2023 Wild Woman Story Contest Tulip Tree Publishing, Semifinalist, 2023

• "I Remember How I Believed", River Heron Review Editor's Prize, Finalist, 2022

• "Rove", "A Geography", and "My Son Says We Have No Culture", Frontier Poetry Nature & Place Prize, Longlist, 2022

• "Bones", The Kelsay Books Women's Poetry Prize, 2021, Honorable Mention

• Each Bearing Out, New Women's Voices Chapbook Series, Semifinalist, 2021

• "when people ask my mother how many children she has, she hesitates," Poetry Society Virginia Contests, third place, 2021