Awards and Fellowships

• Listing in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Seton Hall University, 2006
• 2005 Helen L. Bing Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA April 2006
• Artist Residency, Djerassi Residence for Artists, Woodside, California, 2005
• Nominee for a Pushcart Prize XXIX: The Best of the Small Presses, The Pushcart Press, NY, 2005
• Readers’ Choice Award from Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska, ($250 award), 2005
• Nominee for a Pushcart Prize XXVIII: The Best of the Small Presses, The Pushcart Press, NY, 2004
• Nominee, National Book Award in Poetry, for Ghost Orchid, (Red Hen Press, 2004), 2004
• Finalist, Minnesota Fine Press Award, for A Brief History of Punctuation, (Sutton Hoo Press, 2002), 2003
• Visiting Artist Residency, The American Academy in Rome, Italy, 2002
• University of California Faculty Exchange Residency, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 2000
• Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1999 and 2001
• Fellowship in Poetry, National Endowment for the Arts, ($20,000), 1999-2000
• Fellow, Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Visby, Sweden, 1997
• Fellow, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Authors, Drue Heinz Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1995
• Mary Caroline Davies Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, 1994
• Celia B. Wagner Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, 1994
• Chancellor's Faculty Research Grant: $1400, University of California, Riverside, 1993
• Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, Spring 1993
• Research Fellow, Fulbright/Indo-American Fellowship, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Bangalore University, Bangalore, South India, 1990-1991
• Nominee, Mac Arthur Award, 1990
• Nominee, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Speaking in Tongues, 1990
• Nominee, The Lamont Prize, The Academy of American Poets, New York, NY, 1989
• Nominee, General Electric Younger Writers Award, 1986, 1988, 1989
• Winner, Peregrine Smith Poetry Award for Speaking in Tongues: book publication and $500 award, 1989
• Grand Prize, SCCA International Poetry Competition: $500 award, 1987
• Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 1982-1984
• University Award, The Academy of American Poets, New York, 1983
• Undergraduate Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 1979-1980