Arizona State University
• Academy of American Poets University Prize, First Place, May 2010
• Graduate Student Association’s Teaching Excellence Award, March 2010
• Private workshop with Stephen Dobyns, October 2009
• Workshop with Carolyn Forché, Desert Nights, Rising Stars, February 2008
• Private workshop with CD Wright, October 2007
• Virginia G. Piper Summer Fellowships, August 2007 and 2008
Boston University
• George Starbuck Fellow in Poetry, 1997–1998
• Academy of American Poets University Prize, honorable mention, May 1998
• Semifinalist for The Nation–Discovery Poetry Prize, 1999
• Writer-in-residence, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, California, December 2000–January 2001
Girton College
• Mary Graham Scholarship and Beatrice Mills Prize (for First Class result), June 1997
• Barbara Wrigley Prize for Literary Composition, June 1997
• Girton College Travel Scholarship for language study in Italy, May 1997
• Rima Alamuddin Prize for Creative Work, May 1995
• Catherine Mary Redding Reading Prize, March 1995
• Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Overseas Bursary, May 1995
• Girton College Overseas Bursary, May 1995 and 1996
Mount Holyoke College
• Mary Woolley Alumnae Association Fellowship (towards graduate study), May 1995
• Clio-Melpomene Prize (towards foreign travel for a promising younger poet), May 1995
• English Department Graduate Fellowship and Joseph McGrath Bottkol Fellowship (towards graduate study at the University of Cambridge), May 1995
• Academy of American Poets (Gertrude Claytor Award), First Prize, May 1994 and 1995
• John Martyn Warbeke Prize in philosophy, May 1995
• Phi Beta Kappa Prize for excellence in creative work, First Prize, May 1995
• Ada LF Snell Poetry Prize for a collection of poetry, May 1995
• Sydney Robertson McLean Short Story Prize, Second Place, May 1995
• Helen Kemp Foster Prize in Literature (co-winner), May 1995
• Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize Competition, honorable mention, March 1995
• Scholarship to Mount Holyoke Writer's Conference with CD Wright, June 1994
• Mount Holyoke Summer Research Fellowship (towards original project), May 1994
• Phi Beta Kappa Prize for excellence in creative work, honorable mention, May 1994
• Kathryn Gray McFarland Award in creative writing, May 1994 and 1995
• Minnie Ryan Dwight Prize in journalism, First Prize, May 1994
