2008
- Finalist, New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition for Specular Reflection
- Semi-finalist, Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize for Specular Reflection
- Finalist (top five), New Issues Poetry Prize, New Issues Poetry & Prose for Skin Shift
- Semi-finalist, Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets for The Erotic Postulate
2007
- Winner, Beauty/Truth Press 2007 Chapbook Competition for Narcissus Resists
- Finalist, Keystone Chapbook Competition for Platos de Sal
- Runner-up, Frank O'Hara Award Chapbook Competition for Platos de Sal
- Also Notable, a top five manuscript for “prowess in composition and daring originality,” Caketrain Chapbook Competition for Narcissus Resists
2006
- Winner, Spire Press Spring 2006 Chapbook Award for Pear Slip.
- Semi-finalist, Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets for The Erotic Postulate.
- Fourth place, the Frank O'Hara Award Chapbook Competition for Pear Slip.
2005
- Best New Poets 2005: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
- Finalist, National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Erotic Postulate.
- Finalist, New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition for Pear Slip.
- Semi-finalist, Frank O’Hara Award Chapbook Competition for Narcissus Resists.
2004
- Pushcart Nomination
- The Kay Deeter Award, awarded annually by the editors of the journal Fine Madness.
- Finalist, Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition for Pear Slip.
- The Hopwood Award for Poetry, Graduate Division, and The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize, The Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Contest at The University of Michigan, awarded for the manuscript The Erotic Postulate.
2002-2003
- Colby Fellowship, The University of Michigan.
2000
- Summer Fellow, The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets at The Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
- Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors in English for Senior Honors Thesis: Empire of Light: History and Art in the Poetry of Derek Walcott, Muhlenberg College
- The Morris S. Hoats Award, Muhlenberg College, for a senior who has shown the greatest interest in and application of literature and the cultivation of a literary mind.
- The Wallace A. Ries ’54 Award, Muhlenberg College, for a senior who has contributed to College life through creativity, artistic vision and spirit.
- Phi Beta Kappa