2015-16 Outstanding Graduate Student in Creative Writing, University of North Texas.
2015-16 Jay C. & Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016 Claire Keyes Poetry Award, Soundings East (final judge: Ross Gay).
2015 CBC Poetry Prize.
2015 Auburn Poetry of Witness Prize, Southern Humanities Review (final judge: Richard Tillinghast).  
2015 Oberon Poetry Prize, Oberon Poetry Magazine.
2014 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Prize, Southern Indiana Review (final judge: Marie Howe).
2014 New Letters Poetry Prize.
2014 The Pinch Poetry Award.
2013 Poetry International Prize.
2013 Yellowwood Poetry Prize, Yalobusha Review (final judge: Traci Brimhall).
2013 James Wright Poetry Prize, Mid-American Review (final judge: Traci Brimhall).
2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize.
2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize.
2011 Greg Grummer Prize, Phoebe.
2011 Annual Poetry Contest, Columbia: A Journal of Art & Literature.
2011 Oberon Poetry Magazine Prize.
2011 Annual Poetry Contest, Fugue.
2011 Gary Gildner Prize, I-70 Review.
2010 Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Virginia.
2009 Yellowwood Poetry Prize, Yalobusha Review, University of Mississippi.
2009 Matt Clark Poetry Prize, New Delta Review.
2009 Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest.
First Runner-up, 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review.
First Runner-up, 2015 Mudfish Poetry Prize.
First Runner-up, 2014 Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press (book prize).
First Runner-up, 2013 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review.
Runner-up, 2013 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, Missouri Review.
First Runner-up, 2013 Common Ground Review Prize.
First Runner-up, 2012 Annual Poetry Contest, Common Ground Review.
First Runner-up, 2012 Oberon Poetry Magazine Prize.
First Runner-up, 2011 Annual Poetry Prize, Fugue.
First Runner-Up, 2010 American Literary Review Poetry Prize.
First Runner-Up, 2009 Yellowwood Poetry Prize, Yalobusha Review, University of Mississippi.
First Runner-Up, 2009 Dogwood Poetry Prize, Fairfield University.
First Runner-up, 2009 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Prize.
Second Runner-up, 2014 Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize.
Second Runner-up, 2011 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review.
Third Runner-up, 2012 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review.
Finalist, 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review.
Finalist, 2015 Passages North Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2014 December Magazine Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2014 Southword Poetry Prize (Ireland).
Finalist, 2014 Sonora Review Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2013 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2013 Iowa Review Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2012 Southeast Review Richard Gearhardt Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2012 New Letters Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2012 Southern Indiana Review Mary C. Mohr Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2010 New Letters Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2010 Gulf Coast Poetry Contest.
Finalist, 2010 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2010 Dogwood Poetry Prize, Fairfield University.
Finalist, 2010 Phoebe Greg Grummer Poetry Award.
Finalist, 2009 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2009 Third Coast Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2009 Third Coast Poetry Prize.
Finalist, 2009 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award.
Finalist, 2009 Atlanta Review Poetry Prize (International Merit Award Winner).
Third Place, The Pinch National Poetry Competition, 2008.
Semi-Finalist, Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize, 2008.