awards and accolades

Poetry

Nominee – Best of Net

  • For “To John On Our Roadtrip”

Nominee – Best New Poets Program

Two Time Nominee – Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award

Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Poetry Prize – 1st Place Winner  

  • For “Elegy For a Found Animal Skull”

Transcendence “Loving” Category – 1st Place Winner

  • For “It’s An Insectivorous Affection”

Transcendence “Creating Beauty” Category – 1st Place Winner

  • For “I’ve Always Had A Sweet Tooth, Writing or Otherwise”

Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Poetry Prize – 1st Place Winner

  • For “There will come a day when the deer trails will be my trails until they will not be anymore”

Shipsey Poetry Contest – 1st Place Winner

  • For “Modern Day Pygmalion”

Ina Coolbrith Poetry Finalist

Moorings Literary Magazine Poetry Contest – 1st Place Winner

  • For “Cigarettes and Honey”

Fiction

The Owl’s Fiction Writing Contest – 1st Place Winner

  • For “Play Pretend”

Moorings Fiction Writing Contest – 1st Place Winner

  • For “Interview With An Artist”

Misc.

Katherine Woodall Essay Contest – 1st Place Winner

  • For “Physiological and Spiritual Health in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women”