The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Ontario Arts Council, and bpNichol Memorial Foundation have honored my work with numerous grants. The writing of each of my full-length poetry books was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

UC Berkeley supported my creative and scholarly writing. Twice my poetry was awarded its highest literary honor, the Eisner Prize. The writing of American Urban Poetics won a President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship in a UC-wide competition, and two UC Berkeley-wide Mentored Research Award Fellowships.

Creative

Longlisted for the Palette Poetry Spotlight Award (top 4%), 2020

Poetry Fellowship, Omnidawn Poetry Writing Conference, June 6-9 2019

Shortlisted for the 2018 Sexton Poetry Prize, Eyewear Publishing, London, 2019

Faculty Development Award for Writing, Holy Names University, Spring 2019

Poetry Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Summer 2017

Eisner Literature Prize for Poetry, University of California, 2002

Shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artists Literature Award through the Ontario Arts Council, 2001

Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress Grant, 2000

Eisner Literature Prize for Poetry, University of California, 2000

Canada Council Arts Grant for Poetry, 2003

Canada Council Arts Grant for Poetry, 1999

Canada Council Arts Grant for Poetry, 1998

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant through Arc, 1996

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant through Arc, 1995

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant through Black Moss Press, 1994

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grants through Black Moss and Coach House Presses, 1993

Canada Council Literature Grant, 1994

Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress Grant, 1993

Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress Grant, 1992

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grants through:  Black Moss and Netherlandic Presses, Cormorant Books, The Canadian Forum, and Open Letter, 1991

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant through Black Moss Press, 1990

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grants through Coach House Press and Poetry Canada Review, 1989

Canada Council Explorations Grant, 1988

Ontario Film Development Corporation Scriptwriting Grant, 1988

Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant through Coach House Press, 1987

Academic

President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California (system-wide), 2004-2005

Mentored Research Award Fellowships, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003

Mentored Research Award Fellowships, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2001

Teaching

Chancellor’s Public Scholars Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2020

Nominated by students for an Alpha Delta Leadership Award, Holy Names University, 2015

Awarded continuing lecturer status for excellence in teaching developmental and transfer-level writing, University of California, Merced, 2014

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for teaching in “Alternative Sexual Identities and Communities in Contemporary American Society” (through:  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies via the Department of Women’s Studies), University of California, Berkeley, 2004