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Awards/Honors  for Call Me Athena

2021   American Booksellers Association Kids' Indie Next List


2021
Junior Library Guild   Gold Standard Selection

2021  Goodreads Choice Awards:  Best Poetry (Nominee)

2021
Cybils Awards : Poetry (Finalist)

2022 Michigan Notable  Book

2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards

YA Fiction (Silver Medal)
Audiobook Fiction (Gold Medal)

2022 Nautilus Award  for Lyric Prose Category  (Silver Medal)

2022 Kids' Book Choice for Best Stellar Storyteller  (Finalist)

2022 Midwest Book Award for Young Adult Fiction  (Winner)

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                                                                                               
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