Awards:
Porter Fleming Literary Competition Award in Poetry, “Transit,” 2016. 
Akron Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, University of Akron Press, 2011.
Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University, 2007.
Iowa Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, The University of Iowa Press, 2005.
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013.
AWP Intro Journals Project Award, 2002.

Fellowships:
Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2003-05.
Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, Poetry, 2002.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2001-03.

Teaching Awards:
Donald K. Anderson Award, University of Missouri, 2009.
Gertrude Spencer Prize for Student-Teacher Collaboration, Cornell University, 2002.

Distinctions:
Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing for excellence in publication, Cornell University, 2016.
George Bogin Memorial Award finalist, The Poetry Society of America, 2009.
Emerging Voices Alumni Award, Purdue University, 2007.
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award finalist, The Poetry Society of America, 2006.
G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2005-09.
Robert Chasen Poetry Prize, Cornell University, 2002.
Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Bucknell University, 2000.

College of Charleston:
SURF Grant with Jozie Konczal, 2016.
Faculty Research and Development Award, 2014.