Awards/Honors  for Call Me Athena

2021 Gold Standard Selection
Junior Library Guild

2021  Sept/Oct Kids' Indie Next Pick
American Booksellers Association

2021 Poetry  Finalist
Cybils Awards

​2021 Best Poetry Nominee
Goodreads Choice Awards

2022 Michigan Notable Book

2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards
🥈Silver Medal for YA  Fiction
🥇Gold Medal for Audiobook Fiction

2022 Silver Nautilus Award 
Lyric Prose Category

2022 Kid's Book Choice Nominee
Ages 15-18: Best Stellar Storyteller

Awards/Honors for Poetry

AIE Artists in Residency Grant 
​Nature Harmony Project 
Hopewell Elementary

Fellowship in Poetry
New Jersey State Council on the Arts 

Semi-Finalist
92 Y "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest

Finalist
James Wright Poetry Award,   Mid-American Review

Finalist
Zone 3 First Book Award
Austin Peay State University

Finalist
The Editors Prize for Poetry
​Pleiades Press, University of Central Missouri                                                                  

Finalist
Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing
Colorado State University                                                                                                   

Finalist
Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition                                                          

Semi-Finalist
Perugia Press Prize                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                             
Finalist
New Letters Poetry Prize, New Letters                                                                              

Semi-finalist
Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press                                                                     

Semi-finalist
Lexi-Rudnitsky First Book Award, Persea Books                                                             
 
Semi-finalist
James Wright Poetry Prize, Mid-American Review                                                          
 
Finalist
Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award                                                                     

Semi-finalist
Brittingham/Pollak Poetry Prize, University of Wisconsin Press                                     

Finalist/Honorable Mention
The Bellevue Literary Review’s Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry                         

Finalist 
The Iowa Review Poetry Award