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AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Abbie M. Copps Poetry Award, 2003.
• Residency Fellow at Seaside Institute, "Escape to Create," 2003.
• Hope College Summer Faculty Grant, 2002.
• Honorable Mention, San Diego Writers' Cooperative, 2002.
• Pushcart Prize nominee, 2001.
• Residency fellow at Ragdale Foundation, summer 2001, 2002, and 2003.
• Finalist, Pavement Saw Press First Book Competition, 2000.
• Finalist, University of Wisconsin Press's Brittingham Prize and Felix Pollak Prize Competition, 2000.
• Residency fellow at Ragdale Foundation, summer, 2000.
• Residency fellow at Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, summer, 2000.
• Poem “Arriving Late by Cab” selected as Best of Issue by Sandra Cisneros, Ellipsis, 2000.
• Finalist, The Refined Savage Bilingual Poetry Review Competition, 1999.
• Chapbook Runner-up, Acorn-Rukeyser Contest, Mekler-Deahl Publishers, 1999.
• First Place, Our Visions: Women in Art Poetry Contest, Womencenter, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, 1998.
• Second Place, Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Competition, 1997.
• The Strosacker Foundation Fund Grant, Hope College, summer, 1997.
• Second Place, Our Visions: Women in Art Poetry Contest, Womencenter, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, 1997.
• Finalist, New Issues Press, National First Book Competition, 1997.
• First Place Chapbook, White Eagle Coffee Store Press Series, 1996.
• Honorable Mention, Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Competition, 1996.
• Willard Wichers Faculty Development Grant, Hope College, summer, 1995.
• First Place Chapbook, Franciscan University Press Series, 1994.
• Chapbook semi-finalist, Palanquin Poetry Series, 1995; The Devil's Millhopper Press, 1994.
• Chapbook finalist, Tennessee Chapbook Prize, 1995; Calypso, 1994; Alms House Press, Illinois Writers Inc., State Street Press, 1993.
• Honorable mention, Taproot Poetry Contest, 1994.
• Creative Artist Grant for the 1992-93 year, Arts Foundation of Michigan and Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
• Third Place Maryland Poetry Review Poetry Contest, summer, 1992.
• Second Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review Poetry Contest, 1990.
• The Richard Benvenuto Memorial Prize, Best Poem, Red Cedar Review, 1989.
• Honorable Mention, Snowbound Writers Competition, Grand Haven, MI,1989.
• 1989 All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar, Western Michigan University, 1989.
• Best Poem, Trial Balloon, Western Michigan University, 1987.
• First Prize, Snowbound Writers Competition, 1986.

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