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 and Recognitions

Gival Press Poetry Contest (2012)
            Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Snake Nation Press: Violet Reed Hass Competition (2011)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Crab Orchard Review Series Open Competition (2011)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Slope Press (2011)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

White Pine Press (2011)
            Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Gival Press Poetry Contest (2011)
            Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Gival Press Poetry Contest (2010)
            Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series Brittingham and Pollak (2010)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

C&R Press De Novo Poetry Contest (2010)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Crab Orchard Review Series First Book Award (2010)
             Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

The Washington Prize (2010)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Crab Orchard Review Series Open Competition (2010)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Many Mountains Moving Press Book Contest (2009)
            Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”

Crab Orchard Review First Book Award Competition (2009)
        Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

Wisconsin University Press Poetry Book Contest (2009)
          Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

Patricia Bibbit First Book Award (2009)
        Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

Crab Orchard Review Open Competition (2009)
        Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

C&R Press Open Series Poetry Competition (2008)
        Honorable Mention: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."   

Wisconsin University Press Poetry Book Contest (2008)
          Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."

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

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

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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