2014 SLS merit fellowship in nonfiction, Vilnius, Lithuania



2011 Best New Poets nomination, Meridian, U of Virginia and Ka Palapala Po‘okela award nomination



2009 Aurora Theatre, Global Age Project (stage play), finalist



2008 St. Petersburg Review, poetry contest runner-up



2007 Summer Literary Seminars finalist scholarship in poetry, St. Petersburg, Russia



2004 Iowa Short Fiction Award / Iowa Writers’ Workshop, runner-up



1999 AWP Summer Seminars fellowship in creative nonfiction, Prague, Czech Republic



1999 Iowa Literary Award in creative nonfiction, Ames, Iowa