Grants and Awards

All-University Research & Creative Scholar Award. Western Michigan University 2006
Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award   2006
Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award. Spanish Department 2006
Graduate Research & Creative Scholar Award. Languages & Linguistics 1993
Doctoral Teaching Associateship Spanish Ph.D. Program  2004-2005
Doctoral Teaching Associateship Spanish Ph.D. Program  2003-2004
Graduate Research Travel Fund Grant 2005
Graduate Research Travel Fund Grant  2004
PHI KAPPA PHI Honor Society Member 2005
PHI KAPPA PHI Honor Society Member 1990
PI DELTA PHI Société d'Honneur Française 1993

Poetry Awards

Letras Femeninas AILCFH   Premio Victoria Urbano (2007).  Winner of poetry         contest: "Mascarade," "Bricolage," "Simulacra," "Unborn," "Evening Walk."

Zone 3 First Book Award (2007).
           Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press (2005).
           Finalists: "Bajo pinceladas,"   "El sol también tiene su lado oscuro,"           "Contrapunto."

Nimrod /Hardman Award, Pablo Neruda Prize (2003).
           Finalists: "Tea at Chez Paul's," "Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry,"
           "Narguileh," "I had Never Seen a Dead Man Before," "Open-Air Cinema in             Heliopolis," "A Triptych, Unraveled."

Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize (1999).  
           Semi-Finalist: " Raoucheh "

Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize (1994).  
           First Prize:   "Encounters," "Vanishing Shadow," "I Haven't Written a Poem             in a Long Time."

Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1994).  
           Finalist: "A Glimpse of Fall."

Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1993).
           Finalist: "To Henriette."

Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1992).
            Finalist: "That Day in Heliopolis."

Robert Writing Awards (1990).
           Finalists: "Transience," "The Communion."

Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1989).
          Finalists: "Tea at Heliopolis," "The White Brass Bed," "Camera Lucida"           (former title "Reflections")

Linden Lane Magazine 's English Poetry Prize (1989).
           Third Prize: "Waiting for Marie."

Linden Lane Magazine' s English Poetry Prize (1987).
           Finalist: "Immured," "Dive."

Journal Français d'Amérique.   Concours de Poèmes de Noël (1986).
                Second Place: "Al Milad."

Fiction Awards:

Letras Femeninas AILCFH "Noor el Kamar" Premio Victoria Urbano Contest Winner (2007).

New Voices "Mariam" Honorable Mention Contest (1993).

New Voices "Anemones Fingers" Honorable Mention Contest (1992).

 

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