Recent Publications & Awards:

 

1. *International Merit Award, Poetry 2008 International Poetry Competition, Atlanta Review
   

   

1. *“Differential” Atlanta Writers Club Poetry Contest, Second Place, 2008
   

   

1. *“Calloused” Scratch Short Story Contest, Winner, May, 2008
   

   

1. *The Myth of Gravity, Gival Press Poetry Award, Finalist, 2007
   

* “The Market Where Blankets Bend” Forthcoming in International Poetry Review Hispanic Issue, Summer, 2008

1. *“First Steps” and “The Last Drops of a Holy Drink” the University of New Orleans Study Abroad in Writing Contest, Honorable Mention
   

                                                                                 

1. *“Two Islands” Finalist - 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the North American Review -publication forthcoming in Spring issue
   

                                                                                        

* The Myth of Gravity, MFA poetry thesis, awarded an Iowa State University Graduate College Research Excellence Award, 2007

* Forthcoming in Poetic Voices Without Borders 2; “Not This” and “Wing By Wing”

                                                                                        

1. *Forthcoming in the North American Review;  “In The Karate Dojo Sensei Teaches Emptiness”
   

* “Her Mexico Blurs” receives the 2008 Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal for the Poem, The William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, New Orleans (Judged by Nicole Cooley)

* Publication in Lyrical Iowa 2007; “Island Woman Dances”

* Phyllis J. Lepke Endowed Graduate Award,

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities,

Iowa State University, 2007

* Publication in Poetry International 2007; “Frontier”

*Publication in International Poetry Review 2007; “Not This”

* Iowa Poetry Association Poetry Contest 2006;

“Sakura, Sakura” 3rd Place

*  Publication in Lyrical Iowa 2006; “Sakura, Sakura”

* Fourth Genre’s Editors’ Prize 2006;

“Her Mexico Blurs” Honorary Mention

* Publication in StringTown 2006;

“Starfish Cafe”

*Publication in Sketch 2006;

“After Seven Years”

“I Was Her Teacher”

“In the Aisle”

“My Brothers From the Sea”

1. *Publication in Sketch 2005; “Wing By Wing”    “Orange Robes Folding”