HONORS
Finalist for Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press for chapbook, Blond Boy
Pushcart Prize nomination from Verse Wisconsin for Explain in an Essay
Winning Writers’ War Poetry Competition 2009 finalist
New Millennium Writings 2010 semi-finalist
Poetry Society of New Hampshire National Contest honorable mention
REVIEWS
Review of Blond Boy in The Villager Newspaper November 11, 2014
A review of “‘The Widow’s Handbook’ – Boston Globe March 8, 2014. Paragraph five mentions the nine month pregnant 23-year-old mother, making reference to my poem entitled Widow Mother.
Bruce Kawin of the Best American Poetry blog is interviewed about The Widows’ Handbook in this entry from April 24, 2013
FLYER with blurbs for The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
Lise Menn, editor of The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, writes on the creation of the anthology on the Best American Poetry blog entry Feb. 21, 2014