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| Guest Nonfiction Judge for Metroversity Prize | 2013 |
| Featured collaboration narrative & interview with So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & Art | 2012 |
| Featured writer interview with Air Schooner, the podcast companion to Prairie Schooner | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Alligator Juniper Creative Nonfiction Prize | 2012 |
| Finalist for the AROHO/To the Lighthouse Poetry Book Prize | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Idaho Prize in Poetry | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Lena Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize | 2012 |
| Finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award | 2012 |
| Guest Nonfiction Judge for So to Speak Literary Contest | 2012 |
| Honorable Mention for Carnegie Center LGBT Poetry Prize | 2012 |
| Recipient of a University of Louisville "Faculty Favorite" Award | 2012 |
| Runner-Up for the Harpur Palate Creative Nonfiction Prize | 2012 |
| Semi-Finalist for the CutBank Prose Chapbook Prize | 2012 |
| Semi-Finalist for the DIAGRAM Essay Prize | 2012 |
| Winner of the Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize | 2012 |
| Finalist for the AROHO Orlando Prize in Creative Nonfiction | 2011 |
| Finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize | 2011 |
| Finalist for The Writer's Center Emerging Writer Fellowship | 2011 |
| Finalist for the Writer's Digest Essay Prize | 2011 |
| Finalist for the X.J. Kennedy Nonfiction Prize | 2011 |
| Listed in Best American Essays 2011 for "Notable Essay of 2010" | 2011 |
| Semi-Finalist for the DIAGRAM Essay Prize | 2011 |
| Semi-Finalist for The New Guard Review Poetry Prize | 2011 |
| Semi-finalist for the Tupelo Press First/Second Book Award | 2011 |
| Third Prize for The Atlantic Nonfiction Essay Contest | 2011 |
| Winner of the Carolyn Krause Maddox Prize in Women's & Gender Studies, University of Louisville | 2011 |
| Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir | 2011 |
| Winner of the Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize | 2011 |
| Commencement Speaker, Olney Friends School Graduation | 2010 |
| Finalist for Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Lyric Poetry Prize | 2010 |
| Named a "Faculty Favorite" by undergraduate students at University of Louisville | 2010 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for poem, "What Nimrod Should Have Known" | 2010 |
| Recipient of a Kentucky Council for the Arts Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction | 2010 |
| Recipient of the Allen-Wiggins Scholarship for Creative Achievement | 2010 |
| Recipient of the Morris Bein Award for Excellence in Humanities | 2010 |
| Runner-Up, Campbell Corner Poetry Exchange | 2010 |
| Winner of the American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize | 2010 |
| Winner of the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize | 2010 |
| Winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series | 2010 |
| Winner of the Metroversity Prize for Creative Nonfiction | 2010 |
| Distinguished Alumni Interview with Pacific Lutheran University | 2009 |
| Featured Writer Interview with Southern Indiana Review | 2009 |
| Finalist for Cleveland State University First Book in Poetry Prize | 2009 |
| Finalist for Cleveland State University First Book in Poetry Prize | 2009 |
| Finalist for Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook Prize | 2009 |
| Finalist for the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction | 2009 |
| Finalist for the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize | 2009 |
| Finalist for Tupelo Press First Book Prize | 2009 |
| Recipient of a University of Louisville Creative Writing Scholarship | 2009 |
| Recipient of the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature Award for Nonfiction | 2009 |
| Second Prize for Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Prize | 2009 |
| Second Runner-Up for New Women's Voices Chapbook Prize | 2009 |
| Semi-Finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry | 2009 |
| Winner of the Anne Braden Social Justice Research Prize, University of Louisville | 2009 |
| Winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award in Nonfiction | 2009 |
| Winner of the Colgate University Nonfiction Book Award | 2009 |
| Featured Poet Interview with Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry | 2008 |
| Finalist for Cleveland State University First Book in Poetry Prize | 2008 |
| Finalist for Graywolf Press Nonfiction Book Prize | 2008 |
| Finalist for Iowa Award in Nonfiction | 2008 |
| Finalist for Tupelo Press First Book of Poetry Prize | 2008 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for lyric essay "Early Elegies" | 2008 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "For the New Year" | 2008 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Hood Canal" | 2008 |
| Finalist for Arts & Letters Nonfiction Prize | 2007 |
| Finalist for Carolina Wren Press First Book of Poetry Prize | 2007 |
| Finalist for Georgetown Review Prize in Poetry | 2007 |
| Finalist for Graywolf Press Nonfiction Book Prize | 2007 |
| Finalist for Milton Kessler Poetry Prize, Harpur Palate | 2007 |
| Finalist for the Sow's Ear Review Poetry Prize | 2007 |
| Finalist for Tupelo Press First Book of Poetry Prize | 2007 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "(blue)" | 2007 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for poem "Law of Parsimony" | 2007 |
| Finalist for Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Lyric Poetry Prize | 2006 |
| Finalist for Iowa Award in Nonfiction | 2006 |
| Finalist for Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award | 2006 |
| Guest Judge for Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize | 2006 |
| Honorable Mention for Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize | 2006 |
| Honorable Mention for Tamara Horowitz Graduate Student Paper Prize, University of Pittsburgh | 2006 |
| Honorable Mention forThe Spoon River Review Editors' Choice Award in Poetry | 2006 |
| Recipient of the Literal Latte Nonfiction Award | 2006 |
| Second Prize for American Academy of Poets Prize, University of Pittsburgh | 2006 |
| Semi-Finalist for Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize | 2006 |
| Third Prize for Literal Latte Poetry Prize | 2006 |
| Finalist for Iowa Award in Poetry | 2005 |
| Winner of the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize | 2005 |
| Honorable Mention for Film Studies Scholarly Essay Prize, University of Pittsburgh | 2004 |
| Pushcart Prize nomination for lyric essay "Black Fleece" | 2004 |
| Winner of the Chicago Literary Award in Poetry | 2004 |
| Winner of the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize | 2004 |
| Recipient of Marjorie Riverrun Award for Teaching Excellence, Western Washington University | 2003 |
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