Awards

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"

 

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