Honors and Awards:
- Nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize for the poem Handkercheif Skin by Pirene’s Fountain
- Nominated for a 2012 storySouth Million Writers Awards by Blue Print Review
- Nominated for a 2011-2012 Excellence in Teaching Award at RCCC
- Essay I’m on A Boat was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize by Blue Print Review
- Poem “The Letter W” was nominated for a 2011 Best of the Net award by Diverse Voices Quarterly
- Chapbook An Amateur Marriage was a finalist for the 2011 Robert Watson Poetry Award
- Selected as a 2011 Summer Institute Fellow for the UNCC branch of the National Writing Project
Paper House won the 2010 NCPA Award for Poetry and was nominated for a 2010SIBA award- Poem – Hoarders – was a finalist for the 1st annual Ron Rash aware as sponsored by the Broad River Review
- Ranked 25 the week of August 15th on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Poets Best Seller List
- 3Cheers Nomination – unFold Magazine
- 2009 Finalist for Best of the Net, courtesy of The Northville Review for my poem Drawn to Heroes
- 2009 Nomination for Best of the Net, courtesy of Dead Mule for my poem Best Friends
- 2009 Pushcart Nomination from Wild Goose Poetry Review for my poem “Amphibian”
- Finalist 2008 Camber Press Chapbook Contest
- Semi-Finalist Spring 2008 Black River chapboook competition
- 3rd Place 2008 Margie Review / St Louis Poetry Center Contest–Contest Judge Robert Pinksy
- 2nd Place 2008 Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize–Charlotte Writer’s Club
- Finalist 2008 NCSU Poetry Contest poem Best Friends (later published in Dead Mule)
- 8th Place in 2007 Shadow Poetry Chapbook Competition
- From Undergrad: Dean’s List, University Marshal, Alpha Lambda Delta, Sigma Tau Delta
- From High School:Recipient of the NC Teaching Fellows Scholarship, Rotary Scholarship and Young Business Woman’s Scholarship from Elizabeth City, NC.
