Oregon State Poetry Association, 2003 Spring Contests
"It's Been a Busy Week": First Prize Current
Affairs Contest
Albireo Press
Moving the Language: First Prize, 2003 Chapbook
Contest
Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 2002
"The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky": First
Prize
"Moons in Autumn": Honorable Mention
Dickinson Poetry Awards, 2002
"Domestica": Semi-Finalist
White Mice Poetry Contest IV, Deus Loci
"Joy-When There Is Nothing Else": First
Prize
Oregon State Poetry Association, Fall 2002 Poetry Contests
"A Reluctant Client at the Shelter Speaks":
Second Prize Formal Poetry Contest
"There Are Many Ways to Get to Boston":
Honorable Mention
"Simply Life": Honorable Mention
Potpourri 2002 National Poetry Month Awards
"A Blessing of Bees": Second Prize
Kentucky State Poetry Society 2002 Poetry Contests
"Lollapalooza": Third Prize
"Leaving Oregon": Third Prize
"Legacy": Third Prize
"Kinetics": Honorable Mention
"Winter": Honorable Mention
"Confirmation": Honorable Mention
"The Stomp": Honorable Mention
"Under Glaring Sunlight, Voluptuous Things Grow":
Honorable Mention
Missouri State Poetry Society 2002 Poetry Contest
"Cars and Dogs": Honorable Mention
Inventing the Invisible/Art in the Air 2002 "Earth" Poetry
Contest
"Cycles": Second Prize
Oregon State Poetry Association, Spring 2002 Contests
"Tatanka": Honorable Mention
"To My Unknown Ancestor": Honorable Mention
Vermont Poetry Association 2002 Poetry Contest
"Danger": Honorable Mention
Spoon River Poetry Review 2001 Poetry Contest
"I Love Men on Prozac": First Place
Oregon State Poetry Association, Fall 2001 Contests
"The Lawyer in the Moon": Third Place
"Poverty Sonnet": Honorable Mention
Pudding House Press 1999 Chapbook Contest
Ordinary Days in Ordinary Places: Fourth Place
National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, 1998 Contest
"Bras: A Sestina": First Prize
"A Hysterectomy, A Birth, An Allergy": Honorable
Mention
Pushcart Prize Nomination
"Fine, Smooth Lines Like Peacock Plumes"
National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, 1997 Contest
"Bras: A Sestina": First Place
"A Hysterectomy, A Birth, An Allergy": Honorable
Mention
Comstock Review, 1997 Poetry Contest
"I Do Laundry Well": Honorable Mention
Pushcart Prize Nomination, 1994
"Lime"
Ruth Lilly Collegiate Poetry Prize; Finalist, 1993
Academy of American Poets Award/UND Thomas McGrath Award, 1993
"I Am in Love with the Boys at Dairy Queen"