Awards
- The Walt Morey Fellowship, Literary Arts, Oregon, 2006
- Summer Research Grant, Western Washington University, 1999
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1997-1998
- Walter E. Dakin Fellow to Sewanee Writers' Conference, 1997
- The Balcones Poetry Prize, 1996
- Winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series, 1995
- Poets in Person Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Modern Poetry Association, and the American Library Association, 1995
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, 1995
- Finnish Ministry of Education Scholarship for study in Finland, 1995, 1991
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington Cahill Research Award, 1995, 1993
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington Department of English Scholarship Award, 1995.
- Tennessee Williams Scholar to Sewanee Writers' Conference, 1994
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington Department of English Teaching Award, 1994
- Harperprints Chapbook Competition Winner, 1994
- Alan Collins Scholarship to Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1993
- North Carolina State University Poetry Festival Prize, 1993
- Emerging Artist's Grant from the Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear, 1993
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Ethnopoetics," for College and University Teachers, 1990
- Jules and Avery Hopwood Award, University of Michigan, 1986
- Rackham Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1986
- Lisa Montgomery Tyson Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1985
- Michael Gutterman Poetry Prize, University of Michigan, 1985
- George B. Hill Creative Writing Prize, University of Wisconsin, 1984, 1982, 1980
