Artist Residency Grant, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, July 2022.

Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship, Averett University, Fall 2021.

Bonner Program Faculty Fellowship, Averett University, Summer 2021.

Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship, Averett University, Summer 2020.

Finalist for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Summer 2020.

Poetry manuscript Hubbub selected by Robert Pinsky, former U. S. Poet Laureate, as a finalist in Tupelo Press’s 2016 Dorset Prize.

NEH Summer Seminar on Chaucer, Kent State University, Summer 2016.

Nominated by Subtropics for inclusion in Best New Poets 2015, April 2015.

Hughes Dissertation Fellowship. Southern Methodist University, 2014-2015.

Chapbook shortlisted for Fool For Poetry International Chapbook Competition. Munster Literature Centre, Cork, Ireland, June 2014.

Recipient of the Michael Pueppke Writing Prize for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in the Department of English, Southern Methodist University, May 2014.

Faculty Excellence Award (nominee), Lone Star College-Fairbanks Center, 2006 and 2007.

Rawlings Fellowship, University of Florida, 2000-2002.