- 2009 Camargo Fellow, Cassis, France (Fall).
- 2008 Whiting Award.
- 2006 ”Brother Salvage” named 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord magazine.
- 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Brother Salvage (published in September 2006 by the University of Pittsburgh Press).
- 2002-2003 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
- 1999-2000 Ruth and Jay C. Halls Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- 1995-1997 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.